Today we have the ever-effervescent Ailsa on deck for a guest blog post! Ailsa and I have been Instagram friends until we met in person just before COVID hit. She's incredibly supportive, loving, positive, and all-around wonderful, and if you don't already follow her @_happygocurly_ I highly recommend you do now!
In addition to running her fashion/lifestyle Instagram page, she's a Certified Nurse Midwife and helped answer a ton of questions for me at the end of my pregnancy.
Oh hello! I'm still here but it's been a while. I miss writing on this blog but have been in a totally different newborn world and unable to motivate myself to sit down and pound the keyboard. Until today. Two weeks late for my annual birthday post. But better late than never right?
This year has been full of my highest highs and some very low lows.
When we lived in New York in our 20s, my dad and his wife Jenn, lived across the park. They would have BBQs every weekend in the summer and Jenn always made this refreshing and delicious summer watermelon salad. I've requested it for my birthday every year since! The sweet cool watermelon, tangy feta, and herbacious pesto somehow mix together into perfection.
Luca is two months old (time, please slow down), but instead of my usual monthly recap, I wanted to write about something else that's been top of mind lately: the pressures of new motherhood. There are so many of them and, as we all know by now, there can be a ton of judgment in this space from other moms, family members, friends, spouses, and strangers online.
