Andrea’s Weblog

The girls, Finley and I are up in Maryland for 3 weeks, providing some TLC for their grandma and keeping grandpa entertained. Uncle Christopher and Aunt Kirsten also seem to be enjoying our company. Getting all of us up here in one piece was not the best 12 hours, but it certainly could have been [...]

A few weeks ago, Elena had her first camping trip. We headed back to the same campground where Elizabeth had her first camping trip a little over a year ago, Mistletoe State Park on Clark’s Hill Lake. (If you’re looking on a map, South Carolina renamed the lake Strom Thurmond only recently, but the Georgians [...]

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to those of you who know me, but the Flylady routine barely lasted a week. I’ll try again when the girls are older, but for now, I have a new motto: Dusting and sweeping can wait till tomorrow, for babies grow old so much to our sorrow, [...]

Augusta is NOT a crunchy place. There are so few breastfeeding, baby-wearing, cloth diapering, cosleeping, whole foods eating mamas here, that I definitely don’t fit in a lot of times. I usually find myself strolling away when the conversation topic turns to which formula makes Junior gassey or which store has diapers on sale or [...]