Shelby Smith

On a lifelong hunt for the elusive 10 dollar word

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

2013: on an island, avoidant as hell, thinking my life would be childless, marriageless, career focused, full of travel.

2023: securely attached, happily married with a child, achieving new levels of joy and depth of meaning, fulfilled in my career, and somehow on another island

[James Stuber 🌱🌿🌳🍂 @uberstuber]

me in 2013, 24yo improover: aaaaa i’m improooving, climbing is a metaphor for life bro, does nothing all day only improves

me in 2023, 34yo tpoter: hey have you hear of rob burbea? how expanded is your awareness? yeah i’m a meta-rat, didn’t you see my meta-hat?

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Took my 4 month old twins on an international trip. Discovered I’m now part of a secret club called parents of twins, and there are way more of us than I thought

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

One perk of having a newborn is all the extra time you get in the middle of the night to monitor the situation.

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Want to ruin your day? If you smack a mosquito and blood comes out that’s someone else’s blood on you

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@GreatLakesWife_ Try to take it one night at a time. Just focus on getting through each night and don’t consider a longer time scale. I’m in my third postpartum phase (now with twins) and this is how I’m staying positive, vs last times constantly counting down the months which was an eternity

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@iWomansplainer Ah, hasn’t been my experience because my babies have not been good sleepers as newborns at all. Godspeed to you!

[Meggy @igetsoinspired]

It’s good to have a relationship with a tree in your neighborhood

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Still hard to believe that I started 2025 with two kids and ended 2025 with four kids

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Napping on the couch with two babies, and they’re both mine 🥰🥰

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@doergosum @BullandBaird @morganhousel Good to know as I am still awake at 4am losing my mind

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Help there’s a bird in my living room but my husband isn’t home to get it out

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@BullandBaird @morganhousel 🥹🥰❤️

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

A watched pot never boils; a watched baby never sleeps

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

Me: *gives birth to twins*
My mother in law: *immediately updates her social media profile pics (and entire personality) to “grandma of twins”*

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@GraduatedBen @cremieuxrecueil Is this applicable to a c section scar as well? (But the sutures are on the inside so they don’t get removed)

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@clairevo @elawless Wow, I love following your posts and podcast and I had no idea you were pregnant this whole time! What an impressive grind, you seem so full of energy. Congratulations on welcoming your new baby

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@iWomansplainer Congratulations! That feels so good. I am 3 weeks postpartum with twins and had the worst sleep yet last night 😅 was enjoying cosleeping at first but now I can’t wait til they can move to their own room

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@Momsplaining101 Rashes are a really good use case for asking ChatGPT in my experience

[Shelby Smith @shelbysmith_co]

@FedPoasting And on top of that, usually the baby hates wearing these getups and it’s a disheartening chore to force them into them… or maybe that’s just been my own experience