Why I Stopped Trusting The Chinese Baby Gender Predictor Chart
I was sitting in a terrifyingly hip Brooklyn coffee shop at 14 weeks pregnant with my first kid, wearing my husbandβs oversized flannel shirt because absolutely none of my pants fit anymore, drinking a tragic decaf oat milk latte that...
Debugging the Absolute Chaos of Modern Boy Baby Shower Themes
I was on row 47 of my Google Sheet, cross-referencing the hex codes of compostable napkins with three different artisanal bakery delivery zones, when my wife gently closed my laptop. It was a Saturday afternoon, roughly two months before our...
The brutal truth about baby shower prizes your guests actually want
I was thirty-four weeks pregnant, sweating through a maternity dress in a stuffy Chicago living room, watching my auntie aggressively hand out neon pink loofahs to women in their mid-thirties. The air was thick with the smell of catered samosas...
The Only Baby Shower Invitation Template Advice You Actually Need
Listen, past Priya. It's me, you from six months in the future. You're sitting in the dark at the kitchen island, staring at 47 browser tabs of mint green cardstock options, and your chai went cold an hour ago. You're...
How To Choose A Baby Shower Guest Outfit Without Overthinking
I'm currently sitting on my bedroom floor, staring at a mountain of clean laundry that I refuse to fold, trying to figure out what on earth to wear to my cousin's baby shower this weekend. Iβve got a hot pink...
The Truth About Baby Shower Game Prizes: What Guests Truly Want
I was standing in our living room holding exactly forty-two miniature plastic pacifiers threaded onto pastel pink ribbons, staring blankly at my wife. Outside, it was doing that classic Portland drizzle, but inside, our house had been converted into a...
Brilliant Baby Shower Game Ideas That Won't Make Guests Flee
I'm sitting on a terribly uncomfortable velvet pouf in a semi-detached house in Richmond, watching my wifeβwho's thirty-four weeks pregnant with twins and currently harboring the pelvic stability of a Jenga tower in an earthquakeβpretend she enjoys sniffing a nappy...
Transporting a Three-Tier Boho Frosting Tower on I-5 at 15 MPH
The suspension on a 2016 Subaru Outback is surprisingly unforgiving when you've forty pounds of Swiss meringue buttercream buckled into the passenger seat. I was driving fifteen miles per hour down the shoulder of I-5 with my hazard lights flashing,...
The truth about claiming the Target baby registry welcome kit
My mother-in-law told me I had to physically march up to the customer service desk, show them my pregnancy app, and politely demand my gift bag. My best friend swore the whole thing was an internet myth because her local...