Hey internet friends! I have been so MIA since February, so I thought it would be fun to do a mini photo-dump from the past few months to give you a quick update on life (not that a whole lot has changed 🙂). But just to give you some insight into our life since February! Insight 1 👆🏻. Being outside. Since the weather has turned warm (THANK YOU LAWD), we have been outside as much as we possibly ...
A Shift
Happy Monday, internet friends! Please enjoy this picture of my painfully adorable baby + a side of under-eye mascara residue from the day before. Coming at you today with something different. I'm just going to jump right in and share my heart a little bit in regards to this blog. The Garlic Diaries is six years old as of this past September (which is crazy to think about), and it has brought ...
Back from Maternity Leave!
Hi, friends! It feels great to be "talking" to you again after twelve weeks! It's such a blessing to be able to take as much time off blogging as I feel that I needed and wanted after baby girl arrived. That flexibility is one of my favorite parts of this wonderful thing that I'm lucky enough to call "my job." But I'm so happy to be back now! I've been itching to get back into things for weeks, ...
April Chats!
Hello everyone! Happy May! Now that we've wrapped up April, I wanted to pop on and do my little monthly chat with you lovely people. I wish you could sit across from me and we could chat and catch up in person, preferably with a large glass of icy whipped coffee in front of us (have you seen the whipped coffee trend?? Have you tried it?? I like it, but it's SUPA rich). This has been such a ...
Peace Amidst Chaos
Starting off with a peaceful picture of a cuddling little boy to enforce the "Peace" in the title 😌! I've been off the blog for a few weeks while one of our sons had a horrible case of hand, foot, and mouth - he was taking every single little speck of my attention, so I had to take a little breaksie on this end! It has felt weird to be disconnected from the blog with everything going on in the ...
November, December, January Chats (whoops)
Woaaaahhhhh there, what happened November, December, January, and now about half of February?! The time flew by in a swirl of chaos that made my head spin just a leeeele bit. WHEW. Y'all - these holiday months be cray, right? I know January and February aren't holiday months, but they were also PACKED full of things for our us. Specifically the past four weeks - we have had crazy crazy craziness. ...
Back in Business!
Hello everyone!!! I am so excited to be writing this right now! I will say that part of me is sad that maternity leave is over because I just LOVED being able to focus all my time and attention on my bebes. It was a wonderful three months. Very, very exhausting and challenging at times, because...newborn + one and a half year old...but I freaking loved it. So, I'm going to spend some time ...
Hello From Maternity Leave!
Hello there, friends! I'm popping in for a quick check-in just to let you know what's been going on over here in our neck of the woods. We welcomed sweet baby Colton on November 21st after a crazy, craaaazy quick labor. I'll post a full birth story after I'm officially back from maternity leave, but let's just say I slid onto that epidural train by the skin of my teeth...I was minutes away from ...
My 6 Favorite Apps for New Moms (for pregnancy and after)
Ah, modern technology. Isn't it just the best sometimes? I know it's a hot button topic that our society is WAY too technology and social media centered, and I totally can get on board with those arguments in certain situations. BUT - when you are breastfeeding a new baby and learning your routine, an app that tracks which side you started feeding on so you don't have to remember when the next ...
Maternity Leave
Hello, friends! I wanted to pop over here will quick and let you know that I officially started maternity leave this week. This will mean a few things for the blog and social media: I won't be on here at all actively posting. I have pre-scheduled one post a week to go live throughout my maternity leave so the blog isn't super silently quiet like it was during my last maternity leave. So you'll ...