My 6 kids aren’t a burden, my selfishness is
I already feel like a doof just from that title alone because oh, really, Jenny, that 11 week old baby upstairs qualifies you to address the world as a mother of six? Technically, I mean, yes, yes…
The birth of Benedict
Been meaning to get around to this for a month or two, and now that we’re enjoying a nontraditional vacation at Children’s hospital NICU, I’ve found the time. (And boooooy did I find the time. If you…
What I read in 2019 (a booklist for highly sensitive, graphic-violence-and-casual-sex-averse recovering intellectuals who read to unwind but also learn and tend to get obsessively into one author at a time)
How’s that for a title? Descriptive, right? I’ve been putting this off and putting this off and putting this off because writing book lists is, like parenting a newborn, exhausting, and by nightfall all I want to…
Some thoughts on body image during pregnancy and postpartum, and the ego-shattering expense of motherhood
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Seriously, though, it was the worst of times for about the last 3 weeks of Benedict’s pregnancy, which seemed to stretch interminably out over major…
Welcoming Big Ben
Sweet Benny (Benedict Reid Uebbing) is now 3 days old after a whirlwind of a weird labor ending in a surprise c-section and almost 10 solid pounds of chunky baby goodness. Some stats on our newest arrival:…
HELLO, IT’S ME
Adele will forever be commingled with Thanksgiving in my mind, inserted there by a now three year old SNL skit. anyway, guys, it has been a minute. Just to recap, I’ve: Left my job at CNA –…
Off the Charts NFP
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a regular topic of discussion on this site. If you’d have asked me when I was daydreaming through my mandatory introductory sessions to the Sympto Thermal Method as a blushing bride-to-be whether I…
Last chance, doors are closing at midnight tonight (and ps, my highly irregular blogging schedule will resume … shortly)
For anyone out there who is still on the fence, Off the Charts is still open for new members…for a few more hours. After that? We won’t open doors again until spring 2020. (And you’ won’t hear…
Registration for Off the Charts is officially OPEN!
What’s your biggest struggle with NFP? Is it a lack of support? Is it a feeling of being overwhelmed by your own fertility, of not being confident in your ability to chart? Do you struggle with what…
It’s not goodbye, it’s see you around…
Today marks my final day with Catholic News Agency, home to Mama Needs Coffee for these past 6 years. It’s hard to remember when blogging was a thing you kind of hung your head about when answering…
