Dear Past Sarah: Your Kids Need Real Fishing Bibs Out There
Dear Sarah from last October, You're standing on the damp, splintery planks of the marina dock at 6:15 AM. You're wearing those gray Lululemon leggings that are starting to pill at the inner thighs, an oversized, slightly damp college sweatshirt,...
The Truth About Long Sleeve Onesies Before You Buy Everything
I was standing in the middle of my living room in late July, sweating clean through my postpartum leggings, holding a screaming, rigid newborn who looked and sounded exactly like an angry watermelon. I had just tried to force a...
The Great Winter Layering Myth and Why Baby Tights Fix Everything
Here's the biggest lie the baby industrial complex ever sold us: that infants need pants. And separate socks. I'm staring into the middle distance right now just remembering the sheer delusion I operated under with my first kid, Leo. It...
Why The Right Toddler Sweater Stops Winter Car Seat Panic
"Put a proper heavy coat on those girls," my mother-in-law announced last Tuesday, eyeing the twins as if I were deliberately trying to freeze them to death on our walk to the park. "They'll completely overheat in the boot of...
How I Finally Hacked The Baby Tee Womens Trend After Two Kids
I was sitting in the driver's seat of my Honda Odyssey in a Target parking lot on a random Tuesday in March, violently regretting every life choice that had led me to this exact moment. I was wearing a neon...
The Great Knee Blowout: Finding the Best Leggings for Girls
It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the laundry room floor with a hot iron, trying to fuse a denim star patch over a gaping hole in a pair of hot pink pants while my...
A letter to my May self about the great toddler shorts strike
Listen, May Priya. You're sitting on the rug right now, watching your kid sweat through a pair of heavy fleece joggers while the Chicago spring decides to skip straight to eighty-five degrees and eighty percent humidity. You're holding a pair...
Why your toddler needs real fishing bibs (and not cute raincoats)
There's a very specific, high-pitched intake of breath a two-year-old makes when the icy water pooling on a rented fibreglass boat seat finally breaches her supposedly "weather-resistant" corduroy trousers. Itβs a sound that cuts through the roar of a vintage...
The Absolute Madness of Putting a White Baby Tee on an Infant
We're twenty minutes into what was supposed to be a civilized Sunday picnic in Regent's Park. I'm holding a lukewarm flat white, desperately trying to project an aura of calm competence. Florence and Matilda, my two-year-old twins, are wearing identical,...