Articles by Jessica Shyba

Mother, dental school widow, fashionista. Suburban transplant adapting to life in Manhattan and loving it.

→ Email Jessica

Posts by author:

Jessica Shyba

Babywearing in New York City

February 28, 2012

Living in a big city is challenging with small children. It isn’t easy to grocery shop with them, or go to the post office, or even head to ballet class once a week. Taking the subways, taxis and busses is more difficult than it’s worth, so we stay local enough to access our needs and [...]

Read the full article →

Meeting The Lorax (& a Giveaway!)

February 23, 2012

With a three year old girl and a five year old boy, our home and lives are literally filled with princesses, ballerinas, cars, and superheros. I never thought I would be the parent that succumbed to trademarked characters-espececially in such gender specific extremes. It happened naturally though, as I watched my two children gravitate to [...]

Read the full article →

On the Horizon

February 21, 2012

Our home has been filled with more love and chaos than ever before, but we’re doing well. All five of us are doing really, really well. It feels so good to say that after there was so much uncertainty brewing just before Beau was born. During our fifth year of marriage, our family expanded to [...]

Read the full article →

Coolsculpting (Giveaway)

February 9, 2012

This is a sponsored post. One of my New Years resolutions was to get back into shape after having our third child in the middle of December. My pre-baby body was never in the perfectly toned shape that I have always wanted it and honestly probably never will be-but that’s ok with me. I would [...]

Read the full article →

Three Peas in a Pod: Our Nursery

February 2, 2012

I’ve been wanting to share our nursery/children’s room with you for a while now, but there were so many things getting in the way. First and foremost, I wanted those picture perfect magazine-like images to share. I had to eventually come to the realization that the perfect magazine photo just wouldn’t ever happen. And that’s [...]

Read the full article →

Sundays

January 30, 2012

I’ve never really been a fan of Sundays until recently. Throughout my life, Sundays have indicated the impending doom of Monday… Back to school or worse, work. Since I’ve been a stay-at-home mother and wife to a student, the weekends have blurred. I’m grateful that Justin is around most weekends, but generally he spends a [...]

Read the full article →

Calming our Cabin Fever

January 20, 2012

Winter on the East Coast was a tough pill for this California Girl to swallow the first two or three cold winters we had here. Not only did it get ridiculously cold, but it snowed. A LOT. At first it was scary to me when it got really freezing cold out and dumped snow. We [...]

Read the full article →

The Honest Company with Jessica Alba

January 19, 2012

The birth of our third child raised a common question with us: Whether or not we would cloth diaper or stick with our trusty disposables. Both my husband and I are very eco-friendly minded and try to make many-if not all-of our consumer decisions based on their ability to be kind to the planet. We [...]

Read the full article →

Re-Emerging as a Mother of Three

January 14, 2012

The last five weeks since Beau was born have been filled with love, laughter, exploration, frustration, exasperation and many, many lessons. Jack and Zoe have been troopers as we grow and mold our lives to accommodate this new little being into our family. We’ve done everything we can to keep their lives as “normal” and [...]

Read the full article →

New Year, New Resolve

January 6, 2012

New Year’s Resolutions aren’t something I usually partake in, mostly because I like to think of each new day as a chance to start over, to begin to be better in every way. I’ve always sort of felt like I wouldn’t want to live with the disappointment if I broke a resolution- which totally defeats [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →