How To Pack Your Diaper Bag Like A Pro (Or: The Biggest Fight We Ever Had)
Yep — that’s right.
The biggest fight we EVER had was over packing a diaper bag.
Seriously. And I say this after nearly eight years of marriage, four renovations (one still in progress), and four kids. We have had a lot of fodder for fighting — right back to the blow-up we had three days into our honeymoon when I literally got so angry at Mr. Big(Ideas) I left him standing on a street corner in a small town in Denmark, shouting after me as I marched purposefully towards the train station, trying to figure out exactly how I could get back to LA and annul our short marriage without having to turn around and get my passport back from the Big(A**hole) I’d gone and idiotically yoked my life to.
At which point we would have been saved all this Kardashian madness and they could have just called it a ChecklistDivorce.
Anyway: back to the diaper bag.
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A Blog Is Born, Thanks to My Newborn Essentials List!
Before there was a blog, there was a list — the first ever, original, one-and-only:
ChecklistMommy Gearing Up: Newborn Essentials List
I started writing this list almost five years ago, shortly after Diddy was born. Diddy was that classic, easy first baby, the one that nurses on schedule and sleeps through the night and pops all her teeth without a whimper, the kid who makes you think you ought to have more of them. The kid who makes you think parenting is easy, the kid who makes you think you’ve got it all figured out.
Until one day you look around your house and it is filled from floor-to-ceiling with useless baby crap.
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