A year ago this month, I walked into UNC Rex as a brand new pediatric nurse. Twenty-three years old, fresh BSN in hand, thinking I knew what I was ...
We had such plans for Sophie’s first real Easter egg hunt. I bought the cutest little basket, filled plastic eggs with goldfish crackers and cheeri...
Marcus is officially 26 today, which means he’s been alive long enough to master carbonara and graphic design but apparently not long enough to fig...
Sophie has discovered the power of words and she’s wielding them like tiny weapons. Her vocabulary has exploded from basic babbling to actual phras...
So we had an incident at Harris Teeter today. Sophie wanted a banana. Simple enough, right? I gave her a banana from the bunch. WRONG BANANA, appar...
So here we are - our first New Year’s as the Hartwells!
Merry Christmas from our little family to yours! This morning was everything I hoped our first Christmas as the Hartwells would be - chaotic, magic...
I got home from my shift at 7 AM and Marcus was already up with Sophie, trying to convince her that Cheerios belong in her mouth, not on the floor.
Well, we did it. Our first married Thanksgiving, which apparently means doing double duty at both families’ tables. I think I ate my weight in turk...