Mama Unfiltered

Once your baby turns 1, it’s almost as if they’ve crossed that magical threshold, the one where they’re no longer a baby, but also not quite a toddler. You know the one, the one where they all of a sudden want to run and walk and climb, they want to feed themselves and do everything they see everyone else doing. Yeah, that one.  Well it turns out Bella crossed that threshold way before she even turned one. And I guess that’s to be expected, seeing as she has 3 older brothers to look up to. So it should come as no surprise when I say, I weaned Bella off of pacifiers and bottles before she turned 13 months!! 🎉  Now who wants in on my secret?! Lol So first things first, I should probably disclose that Bella started weaning herself off of pacifiers around 10 months. And what I mean by that is, we stopped taking her pacifiers with us on outings and left her pacifier in her crib throughout the day. The only times she’d use her pacifier was at nap time and bedtime. That’s

So this is something that has been irking me for a very long time now. I have been a stay at home mom for 4 years, and it seems I am always dealing with the same common misconceptions.    I have 4 kids, with all of them being very close in age, which means they’re each in their own stage of growth at the moment. So let me just lay out all the misconceptions & BS that stay at home parents get below. And yes, some you deal with, some you don’t. Each situation varies by family of course.  1. People assume that because you stay home, you’re not allowed to be tired.  This is absolutely some major BS right there! As a SAHP (stay at home parent), you have your littles depending on you, all the household chores & cooking riding on you, and your spouse depending on you; not to mention, you probably have your own goals that depend on you as well. In my situation, I am at the stage where Isaiah (my soon to be 7 yr old) is working on bettering his speech and retaining all his sch