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My Epic Fail And Why Organic Newborn Socks Are Actually Vital

I was sitting on my faded living room rug, trying to pack up three Etsy orders before the mail carrier came, when I looked over and saw my oldest son treating his own foot like a pacifier. He was about...

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Dear past Priya: The Mattel distribution delusion was a mistake

I'm staring at a municipal zoning map of Cook County at three in the morning with half a cold samosa in my hand, trying to figure out if our detached garage qualifies as a commercial loading dock. This is where...

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The Truth About Character Stuffed Animals And Nursery Aesthetics

My heel just found the exact center of a plastic cartoon pup's hard little nose at six in the morning, and as I hopped around the dark living room stifling a scream so I wouldn't wake the baby, I realized...

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Where to Sell Baby Clothes When The Piles Literally Take Over

"You need to put everything on Poshmark," my neighbor Jessica told me on Tuesday morning while we were standing outside the preschool gates. "No, God, ThredUp is the only way, who has time to ship?" my sister texted me literally...

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The Woodland Nursery Trend That Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack

It was late July in 2017, and I was standing outside a strip-mall Starbucks wearing high-waisted yoga pants that I had absolutely no intention of doing yoga in. Maya was exactly three months old. I was holding an iced Americano...

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Escaping Sausage Casings: short sleeve pajamas toddler edition

It's 7:14 PM on a damp Tuesday, and I'm currently employing a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu move I saw on YouTube just to get my two-year-old's arm into a pajama top. Elsie is howling indignantly; her twin sister Maya is standing on...

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The chaotic truth about finding vetement pour garcon that lasts

It's 8:14 AM and I'm currently staring at a photo on my phone from exactly six months ago. Leo, my seven-year-old, is wearing these mustard yellow corduroys that I spent way too much money on. In the photo, they're pristine....

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Why I Tackled a Newborn Cardigan Knitting Pattern for Twins

The bamboo needle slipped from my sweating thumb at precisely 3:14 a.m., sending a cascade of buttery yellow yarn unspooling across the duvet while my wife snored peacefully beside me, seven months pregnant with twins. I was supposed to be...

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Surviving the Infant Cashmere Sweater: A Dad's Troubleshooting Guide

The garment had been sitting in its tissue paper like a museum artifact for three months. My wife's aunt had sent it from Geneva, and I had immediately designated it as high-risk inventory. It was a terrifyingly soft, aggressively expensive...

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