My daughter loves to explore everything around her. She is a virtual sponge, even at 4-months old. She is so alert and attentive, I’m always so shocked that her attention span is greater than 30 seconds.
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Motherhood
Motherhood is the most special, exciting, confusing, enlightening journey that you’ll ever experience. Here are my tips.
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Babies, Bows, and Butterflies 🦋
Dazzling on Date Night
Being pretty on date night is a breeze. Just pop on a cute and flirty dress, apply a little makeup and go! Your significant other – and you for that matter – will be glad you did!
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Surviving Shots. Not the Baby, Mom. You.
It’s going to be OK. Here are five tips to get YOU through your baby’s first set of shots. Don’t worry. It’s going to hurt you more than it hurts them.
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Go Ahead and Have the Chocolate. You deserve it.
There’s ALWAYS room for dessert. Oh, don’t give me that “you can’t eat cupcakes because your diet” foolishness. You can eat this. And you should.
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Insanely Gorgeous Summer Tables… On the Cheap
Don’t you love it when you pass by Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel and you see those beautifully set tables. I do. I always think to myself, I want my table to look like that. So one day I did it. Here’s how.
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Mouthwatering Hamburgers in 30 Minutes! Score one for Mom!
So at the Cook residence with a 3-month old and all the other obligations of the day, good food is something that my husband and I look forward to. Aria is still a little young for us to be toting in and out of restaurants, so we tend to bring the restaurant home.
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Rediscover The Style in Your Own Backyard
This is a little stroll my pixie and I took through the McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston’s Hermann Park district.
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When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Cupcakes
What happens when life hands you a giant bowl of lemons? Well, you get in the kitchen. Kind of like, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Ok, so I’m not a philosopher, but I can bake. I can bake my butt off. There goes that domestic goddess thing again.
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Adventures in Earrings
She was so cute without the earrings. I didn’t think she could get any cuter. Boy was I wrong.
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Breastfeeding for Dummies… i.e. Me.
Right now, as I write this blog, I find myself on the floor of my bedroom, in the not quite middle of the night (10 pm), but to my exhausted and beaten body it feels like 3, pumping for my life – or should I say my tiny angel. Breastfeeding moms this one is for you, you’ll definitely feel me.
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