About
You can call me Dover, which is kind of like the antonym of my real name (oooh, it’s like a riddle!). I like to keep it a little bit private, but if you’re curious you can ask and I’ll probably tell.
I’m a 25 year old would-be academic turned stay at home mom living in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. I have a degree in art history with a concentration in modern and contemporary art from UC Berkeley, and I love all things museumy. I also love music and can play several instruments, my favorite of which is the banjo.
I met my husband, also a musician, at a small show in 2004. He was one of the opening acts, and I was impressed by his rag time piano playing. We were pretty much inseparable from that moment on (except for when I went to Europe and he went on tour). He was a tattooed, cigarette smoking (but don’t worry, he quit), whiskey drinking kind of guy, and I was a sheltered, goody two shoes, still to this day is still too scared to try pot kind of girl, but somehow we clicked. We got married on New Year’s Eve in 2006 (yes, for those who did the math, I was very young). We decided to add a baby into the mix a few years later, and now we are a happy family of three.
We’re fairly granola when it comes to parenting. I was really dedicated to having a natural birth, and you can read about my amazing birthing experience here. I’m happy to be breastfeeding and cloth diapering and baby wearing and co-sleeping, and all of those other fun hippie baby things (look out Montessori school, here we come!). Basically, my one parenting goal is to be as good of a mother as a gorilla.
I’m kind of an internet addict and blogging is second nature to me. I’ve had one in some form or another since I was 14 (Xanga shout out!), and this Tumblr morphed from a focusless vortex of reblogs into a Mommy Blog when I found out I was pregnant in the Fall of 2010. What better way to record the ups and downs of the most amazing time of my life?
I really love the sense of community that comes with blogging, and I enjoy reading other people’s post just as much as I enjoy writing my own. It’s great to know I’m not alone, and that other parents are going through the same trials and triumphs.
