7 must-have smart home devices for 2017

**Note: Believe it or not, we're not being paid by any of these products to write this post. We genuinely just love all these devices. That being said, if anyone wants to pay us retroactively, we totally wouldn't mind.** Today we live in the future. Well, not really, but sometimes it sure does feel like it, …

A parent’s survival guide to having a sick newborn in the hospital

The last thing you want to hear as a new parent is that your perfect, healthy baby is not so perfect or healthy after all.

You don’t have to apologize for being a working mom

The other day I spilled breast milk on my laptop in my hurry to get to a work meeting. That’s just one of many sentences I never imagined saying before I became a mom.

3 lessons pregnancy is teaching me about my body

Third time's a charm, they say, and for Alec and me the cliched saying rings true. I'm approaching week 17 of my third pregnancy—and (fingers crossed) my first successful one. I've had it easy. While some women spend their whole pregnancy laid up in bed, I've remained happy and healthy, aside from a few normal …