Themed Birthday Parties for Kids: How We Create Magic at Home
🎉 Why Birthdays Matter So Much in Our House In our home, birthdays aren’t just a day — they’re an experience. It has been like this since I was a kid growing up with a mom who always went HUGE for birthdays. I am talking about the days of designing a cake from scratch and […]
Finding Balance in Self-Care with the Ice Pod Bath
As a busy mom navigating the challenges of caring for children with feeding and breathing issues, finding time for self-care often feels like a luxury I can’t afford. However, my husband and I recently celebrated our 10-year anniversary by gifting each other an Ice Pod Bath from The Pod Company, and it’s been a game […]
Winston B. Simpson, Wonderdog
***Trigger Warning** Loss of Pet**Love of a Pet*** I lost my baby boy. My first love. The dog I had always hoped and dreamed for. My Winnie Boo. My whole life I wanted an English Bulldog. And my whole life, my mom told me, when you grow up and move out, you can get one […]
Mom Roar + Parenting Tips
Birthday behavior: Mom Roar The other night was my husbands birthday. All I can say is, thank goodness we mostly celebrated it over the weekend and not on the actual Monday that his birthday fell on, because, geez. It. Was. A. Night! Pooks is having a tough time with the transitions right now, totally understandable, […]
New House – Who Dis?
New house, who dis? We closed on the house on a Friday (August 31, 2019) and have been busy bees ever since at the house every second trying to clean it up and move stuff over. It’s a very busy month between closing on the new house and closing on the old house with little […]
Pandemic notes from March 2020
Let’s be honest. Our generation will never forget March 2020. Or, the years after that, for that matter. So, I was looking back through the archives and felt compelled to share my raw, gutteral notes from the thick of it. Below is my pandemic notes from March 2020, right as the world was shutting down […]
An Insurrection, and the Birth of my Pandemic Baby
More notes from the archives. It was such a crazy time in 2020 and 2021, that I tried to document here and there before I had the blog up and running. I am so grateful, looking back, that I did this. While the short hand might be messy, there was so much happening in the […]
The Best Bras after Nursing
I’ve done the work, so you don’t have to. I spent a lot of money this weekend, but I don’t regret it. Did I need every little thing I got? For sure no. But you know what I did need? Good bras. Ever since I had kids and have breastfed and created two tiny Humans, […]
I have a 15 month old!
A letter to my Bunny Boy. You are 15 months old today. I tell you what, kids grow up too fast. As I sit here rocking you to sleep for your nap, I am feeling nostalgic. Exactly one year ago today I was watching Wimbledon, nursing you home on my maternity leave. Playing in the […]
Welcome to Mark it With an S!
Hi, I am Amber. And, welcome to Mark it with an S. I am so happy that you are here. We have been working for a long time to finally get this blog off the ground, and are really excited to finally make it happen. When I was pregnant with our first daughter, I did […]
