Hope in the Hopoate Family

 Have you ever heard the saying, "It's neither good nor bad, it is yet to be seen." My husband told me a Chinese parable where this was the theme. My recent job endeavors have been like this. Flashback to 2019. I was pregnant with my second child and a stay at home mom with my daughter. I was currently working a super part-time job that was so perfect. It was only on Fridays. My husband would make that his one admin day where he would work from home. So he'd be home with our oldest and I could go to work. It was at a family practice office. I loved it. I worked with great people and it was so nice to get out of the house. I definitely missed my daughter while I was gone, but it was nice for me. The doctors and staff appreciated me because nobody wanted to work on Fridays lol, except for me. So while everyone was burnt out from the week, I wasn't and came in ready to work.  So I've got this awesome 'mom' set up. I have my baby and think it'll all s...

 My sweet Tiana’s birthday is coming up! She’s gonna be 6! I can hardly believe it.  So story time.  Tiana has liked ballet for the past year. So we finally signed her up for ballet and she’s been enjoying it! She has one more month in it and then she’s gonna try something new.  Well for her birthday, my dearest friend wanted to take Tiana to see real ballet, the Nutcracker in Salt Lake! I’ll be honest that I was really sad at first. I wanted to go and have that experience with Tiana. Why didn’t I think to do that? Could I just tag along because I don’t want to miss this! Or maybe I just take her myself?  All of these thoughts came because my amazing friend, who is practically my sister, wanted to do this for her niece.  I actually cried about it haha. Then turned to my husband. We chatted all about it. The pros and cons. He answered a lot of my thoughts. Some conclusions we got to were that I can’t go because it’s too long and I’d need to feed baby. It’s a...

            Heyo!! I want to share some tips from my motherhood journey about breastfeeding and newborn sleeping. I am no expert at all. I get the majority of my advice from a book called BABY WISE. And I highly recommend it to all those pregnant women who really want a healthy sleeping relationship for their baby. Otherwise, some of these tips will just come from my personal experience with 4 babies. Again, no expert here. Don't come for me haha. Just tips that have worked for me lol. First off want to start and say that the first 2 weeks of life are the most important. It can be thought that you don't have to create a routine right when a baby is born and to just do whatever works. However, I believe it to be so crucial to start some habits right away. I believe that a baby learns what to expect from outside of the womb within those first 2 weeks. If they are being held the whole time in those 2 weeks, they will think that is normal. They will reques...