2019 Freelance Income Report: Q1 and Q2

TLDR: I made about $9,000 this first half of the year and I did my very first guest podcast. Oy.  This income report isn’t as impressive as it was toward the end of 2018. Things were so up in the air at the end of 2018. I had a failed…

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20 Weeks with Emelia: Getting a jump on this baby thing

I’ve been washing baby clothes this week. Psycho, maybe. Call it very early nesting, or possibly because I don’t want to do this a few months down the road because things are already getting uncomfortable up in here, but I washed baby clothes up to 3-6 months and wow, you…

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19 Weeks with Emelia: The Level II Ultrasound

*  Trigger warning: References to miscarriage and baby loss, but everything is all right with me * It had to have been my 16-week visit with my doctor where we had this conversation while I was pregnant with Olivia. My next appointment was going to be around 20 weeks and…

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Father’s Day 2019… sick.

I don’t take Olivia to the doctor very often. She goes for her well-child checks (obvi), she went for follow-ups after her two ER visits (one for a stomach bug and one for pneumonia), once for a rash on her booty, and maybe twice for respiratory symptoms. Maybe it’s the…

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18 Weeks with Emelia: It’s feeling more real…

I know this is kind of too late, but I’m freaking out about this baby coming, you guys. I know, I know, I’m 18 weeks, and I really am excited. But also terrified. Terrified of a second kid. Terrified of a baby and a toddler. Terrified the postpartum anxiety will…

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