Right after Christmas ushers in another time of the year that’s one of my favs – appetizer season. Because it’s the biggest football game (in America, anyway) of the year and it’s awards season (with, of course, the Oscars being…

Welcome to Charmingly Modern! You'll find a collection of posts + info here about making life simpler and finding beauty amidst the chaos of being a mom.
Simplicity & Beauty in the Everyday

I'm a mom of 3 (plus 4 fur babies) which means I've gotten pretty good at calming the chaos...
...or at least learning to live with it. Which is half the battle, right?
Since becoming a mom over 8 years ago, I feel like I've tried and experienced it all - co-sleeping (aka bedsharing), breastfeeding, formula feeding, pumping, pacifiers, thumbsucking, cry-it-out, gentle extinction, baby led weaning... and the list goes on.
My goal with this space is to share what I know in the hopes of helping another mom in her journey. Want to learn more about me? Read More...
My "typical day with a newborn" post is one of my most popular posts so I dropped my routine into a handy reference sheet that's yours for free.




Right after Christmas ushers in another time of the year that’s one of my favs – appetizer season. Because it’s the biggest football game (in America, anyway) of the year and it’s awards season (with, of course, the Oscars being…

Do you buy into all the “word of the year” hype? It’s really become this thing over the last 5 or 6 years. I first heard about it back in 2014, which was when I first discovered Powersheets. This was…

You were a person before you were a mom. Remember her? She had plans. Ideas. Hopes. Dreams. Places she wanted to go… things she wanted to try and do. Maybe you’ve been feeling lately like you’ve lost touch with her?…

She’s here – our third little one – Vivian Louise. I didn’t consistently update at all throughout this pregnancy. Not for lack of things to say (though the pregnancy itself was pretty routine!), but more for lack of time. From learning…

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I think I have pursued perfection most of my teen and adult life. I don’t know where I picked it up, but somewhere along the way I got the idea that in order to be accepted, admired, and worthy of…

June 2nd-June 8th It seems like 17 weeks is a good time for me to start documenting bump progress, since that’s where I’ve begun for my last two pregnancies and here we are again with this third one! Some people…

I put my simple and easy routine for newborns into a handy 2-page reference sheet for you to download for free.
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