Marielle is a former business analyst turned stay-at-home mama, accessorizing her top-knots with yesterday's mascara and the occasional cheerio stuck to her butt. She has been married to her husband, Andrew, for 3 years, she is small-talk challenged, and she battles daily with her desire to hide in the closet and eat entire packages of Oreos. If there’s anything Marielle has learned, it’s that motherhood is hard. Sometimes she gets it right. Sometimes she doesn’t. That’s pretty much what she talks about over on her blog, The Resplendent, and on Instagram (@the_resplendent) and Facebook, when she's not just attempting to communicate with other humans who speak actual words.
I always dreamed of being one of those super fit pregnant women who didn’t look pregnant anywhere other than in their belly. You know, the kind whose bodies look exactly...
Let’s stop talking about breastfeeding. And while we’re at it, let’s stop talking about formula-feeding, too. I swear, every time I turn on the news or scan my feeds, there...
Me and pacifiers? We go way back. Like, 18 months back. And in that amount of time, our relationship has been a rocky one. There’s been good times and there’s...