Love the title? Sounds impossible, right? No, I’m not being sarcastic at all. There are ways you and your little one can still spend a day having a great time with one another. It was much easier to have flare ups when Hippo was an infant because he had his…
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J-Pouch Life Tools
Has anyone else had issues with having chronic pouchitis? It’s okay, raise your hands. You’re not alone! I swear you’re not. I am in the chronic pouchitis club. Over the past year, I started to lose a little bit of hope because even with the Remicade, I was still getting some…
Hippo and his buddy, “Charlie”
The past couple of months have been…trying, to say the least, in my world of mommyhood. I’ve been questioning myself as a parent. And I’m pretty sure my kid has too. Hippo has been in this space of independence that is leaning more on defiance. And having trouble understanding that mommy…
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Smarty, Smarty Pants!
This probably sounds exceptionally obnoxious, but oh well. My kid is a genius. Literally, one of the smartest kids I’ve ever known. I use to babysit a little boy who went to Mirman, asked all kinds of questions I wasn’t prepared to answer and never found anything intellectually challenging. He…
Happy Birthday, Hippo!
Dearest Hippo, Today is our fifth anniversary. Around this time five years ago I was doing a lot of breathing in my hospital bed, surrounded by your grandparents & daddy and wondering what you were gonna look like. This little adventure we’ve been on has been a trip. Everyday you…
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Surviving SoCal’s Version of Fall
Apparently it’s Fall. But I am afraid Los Angeles has yet to receive the memo. You see even though we pass by the Gap store fronts with it’s beautiful Fall collection and we drink our pumpkin spice lattes and we watch the wind blow across the football fields, we are…