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Baby Registry Do-Over As their children get older, parents often think about things they could have done differently. One thing I wish I could re-do is my baby shower registry.   Parenting magazines and websites like to make you think everything is either necessary or will save you space or money, when the opposite is true for a lot of things.   These are the products I either wish I had registered for or wish I had skipped. Skip: Convertible Crib Don't fall for it!   In theory these things are great, and you can get a good deal on them sometimes. However, the majority of them will not save you money in the long run.   Many of them are upwards of $300, and that doesn’t include the conversion rails, which you have to buy separately. The one we got was almost $400, and you had to buy the rails which cost another $300! It might save you some space, but in my opinion, it’s not worth the investment in the long run. Register for: More newborn cloth...

 Self-Care Experiment Check-In Back in January I posted about what I was calling “The Great Self-Care Experiment of 2018.” I figured now would be a good time to follow up on how it’s going. For starters, I am not being as rigid about it as when I first started. At the beginning, I wrote down everything I intended to do as a way of making myself accountable. All that did was give me more anxiety and I would feel bad when I wasn’t able to accomplish everything on the list. I realize now I was being a little unreasonable. I have an active, fussy, easily bored toddler… OF COURSE I wasn’t getting everything done. I was making my own self-care feel like a chore, and I have a hard time getting all those done too! Some aspects of my self-care I sneak in when I’m doing other things. For example, when I’m cleaning, I am BLASTING my music.   I color my hair at home, and I can’t see without my glasses. So I would normally just end up bored while the color is processing. Now, ...