Last night, we let baby Vivian "cry it out" a couple times in the night. Before you applaud or criticize, let me tell you that ...

I've been up since 3am.  No, not just awake - UP. I knew having another baby would come with less sleep - I just didn't know it wo...

I know no more about how to get a child to sleep than I did a few years ago, but my compassion for parents/zombies has genuinely deepened.  ...

I never imagined that bedtime with little ones would be easy , per se, but nothing could have prepared me for the battles my husband and I f...

Today's TBT post is from April 2012... Pretty often, maybe even daily, my husband and I will be watching our children, blinking hard p...

Since moving to Nashville just a couple months ago, our time of "settling in" hasn't been the easiest.  We knew it would come ...

large and in charge (or so she thinks)  There are many times in parenthood when I am confronted with how the way I love my child is char...

Dear Sleep, We have a strained relationship, you and me.  I want you, I need you, I love you, it's true.  But, I also hate to need y...

I'm exhausted. I know...shocker.  But, really, up until a few nights ago the girls had been sleeping relatively soundly through the ni...

This last weekend the Pardys did something unprecedented in the Pardy home.  Unheard of.  Nearly, entirely foreign.  We did a 48 hour "...

I was privileged to grow up in a house where I got to have my own room.  This was a good thing, since I already felt that the 20-step walk t...

We've all heard of Murphy's Law...c'mon, you know the old adage:   If something can go wrong...it will! Never has this statem...

I’ll have to make this post short and sweet – much like the amount of sleep I’ve gotten this week. But, I just couldn’t let another day pa...