Emily Babb
Emily, originally from North Louisiana, lives with her husband Jeremy and sons Harrison & Elliot in New Iberia. She's an elementary teacher by day and blogger by night at her personal blog Louisiana Bride. She began blogging to document planning her wedding and has since moved to sharing recipes, meal planning ideas, and the humor in daily life. Emily enjoys yoga, gardening, camping, and is a closet hippie. When she isn't having a toddler crawl all over her while she attempts to workout while simultaneously cooking dinner, you can find her reading a good book or watching old BBC documentaries on YouTube. She use to be cool, but somewhere in adulthood all those concerts quit happening and a mini van showed up in the driveway.
How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Healthy Lifestyle
Living a healthy lifestyle is more easily obtained these days than it ever was before.
Can't get to the gym, no problem there are workouts you can stream to your TV instead of doing the...
How a Hair Tie Saved My Sanity
I generally can't remember anything.
Especially something in the mundane task department.
So you can probably imagine that motherhood is going great for me.
Where did I put that? What time? Oh crap we forgot an appointment?...
The Teacher in Me Ends at 3
There's something about teaching that has always struck me as weird. In complete disregard for the fact that we are paid a 9 month salary that's divided over 12 months and for the hours...
Dating in the White Space
Our calendars as parents in this day and age are already packed.
Packed with activities. Packed with work. Just packed to the brim with daily life.
That means adding in time for Mom and Dad to...
7 Tips for Surviving the 7 Year Itch
Recently, we (my husband and I) have really started to appreciate just how much easier marriage is now versus when we were first married (10 years ago). After a recent conversation, it became quite...
Convincing Myself to Be a Happy, Confident, and Present Mama
As a first time mom, my labor and delivery was great ... and then we got home.
I sobbed the entire first night.
From then on, I wouldn't get into photos because I didn't like my...
New Year, Another Whole30
I love a good food detox and Whole30 is one of my favorite ways to do a good reset.
I've followed Melissa Hartwig since about 2011 and have done a few Whole30s, a few Whole15s,...
Tis the Season … To Scale Back
With a large extended family and heck, even a not so large family on my side, the holidays can get expensive quickly.
That doesn't appeal to me at all, and in fact, I've found it...
Your Labor Bag Essentials for Beating Discomfort
For anyone who's had a baby, it's a well known fact that it isn't a walk in the park.
Laboring naturally for as long as possible was a biggie for me.
I had to be induced...
Winter Gardening in the Deep South :: What to Plant and What to Avoid
Y'all, Zone 9 might be my least favorite zone of all.
When I think of gardening, my absolute dream is something around Tennessee or slightly farther north. I just imagine all the goodies Amish women...