4 Tips for Surrogates: Reviewing Your Contract

Contracts for surrogacy are crucial!  However, when you initially receive your contract, it can be very overwhelming.  Thankfully, you’ll have your own legal counsel—read about why that’s important here—so you should definitely go over every page of the contract verbatim with them before signing off. 1. Be wary of caps. I was fortunate...

14 Must Try Margarita Recipes #NationalMargaritaDay

February 22nd is National Margarita Day, so if you wanted an excuse to try a delicious alcoholic beverage then I just gave you one.  If it’s not a margarita, just put it in a margarita glass and fake it. I, for one, seem to be the only mom on the planet that doesn’t drink wine.  But I also basically never consume alcohol.  Yep. ...

The Importance of Proper Legal Counsel for Surrogates

Surrogacy is an expensive undertaking for intended parents (IPs), regardless of the method they choose—traditional surrogate or gestational surrogate; egg donor or using own eggs; working with an agency or going independent—so some IPs may think it makes sense to only pay one lawyer in order to cut costs.  However, surrogates and IPs need to...

7 DIY Kids’ Valentines Mailboxes

So, if you’re feeling like an over achiever and want to do something fun with your kids over the weekend… Why not help them make the coolest Valentine’s Day mailbox ever?  However, if you just send them to school with a shoebox, tissue box, cereal box, or paper bag then that’s okay, too.  I’m not going to tell, and we can just pretend you...

Easy Last Minute Kids’ Valentines

Raise your hand if you’re a procrastinator? Oh.  You, too?!  They start putting Valentine’s Day decorations, candy, and cards out before they’ve even had time to clear out the Christmas decorations from the shelves.  However, I’m that person who didn’t take her Christmas tree down until the middle (or endish) of January and not because...