Hogs for the Cause 2019 Is Right Around The Corner!

Hogs for the Cause 2019 is, for our money, the best festival around. We have loved every Hogs we have gone to! While we won’t be able to attend due to family events, that doesn’t mean you should miss it. Festival Season is Upon Us For those of us that…

5 Top Things We Learned as Parents in Year One

The first year of parenting can be stressful. Everyone has advice for parents of newborns. Including us. So here are the top five things we have learned in our first years of parenting. Share Responsibilities Of course, you should be sharing responsibilities. Anything mommy can do (except breastfeed) daddy can…

The Nola Nerd Baby’s First Birthday

Wait…that fast? How did this happen? Yesterday we were taking the Nola Nerd Baby home for the first time. Yet, the calendar says she was born a year ago. I keep trying to articulate the impact she has had on our lives. Words fail me. It amazes me how much…

Writing About Children in Blogs

Writing about children in blogs is tricky. How much info do you share? We discuss in this post our approach to writing about our little one.

How We Made the Transition to Table Food

Thank You, Baby Bullet The Nola Nerd Baby makes 11 months this week. Where has the time gone??? She is getting so big, and she is so much fun. As she grows, so does her appetite. Over the last two months, she has done a great job with the transition…

Wizard World Cosplay and Gaming

Cosplaying: Wizard World always boasts some of the best cosplays around. Then again, this being New Orleans, sometimes we cosplay because it is a Tuesday. Therefore, we have a leg up on some other cities. Here is some of the cosplay we saw this weekend: Gaming: In addition to cosplaying,…

Healing Together as a Family

2018 Was a Challenging Year To say this year has been exciting would be an understatement. It has been the best year ever, but it nearly was the worst year as well. The struggles my wife had in pregnancy didn’t end with delivery. She had to be rushed to the…

Parenting: Look Who is Nine Months!

Nine months on the inside and nine months on the outside. Our little blessing turned nine months on Thanksgiving day. We can’t make time stop, no matter how hard we try. I wish I could write how much meaning our girl brought into our lives. We weren’t lost; in fact,…

Parenting: Sick Baby With RSV

Noticing Something was Wrong About two weeks ago, the Nola Nerd Baby developed a cough. The weather had changed, and it was the beginning of cough and cold season in this area. She started with the cough on a Saturday and instantly needed more sleep than usual. We did the…