I am all for being passionate about ANYTHING you do in life, from mindfully dicing seventeen onions, to studying for your doctorate, to getting up and putting on the clothes you LIKE each day! Where there is passion, there is hope, drive and ultimately (hopefully) joy in the end result. Passion doesn’t always come … Read more
A couple years back we did our first A Day in the Life Round up. I and fourteen other West Coast parent bloggers shared what a day in our life was like. We are bringing the series back for another round! I love a day in the life posts. Maybe because I really genuinely wonder … Read more
Yay! It’s #fiveonfriday. A free for all to share a list of “five things” with you. I love it because I can write about anything and everything. Like “Five Reasons You MUST Read or Watch the Outlander” (which would pretty much look like this. . . Reasons 1-4: Jamie and Claire, Reason 5: Scotland. And by … Read more
If you ask me, ‘Is motherhood what you envisioned it to be?’ I would probably just make some weird sound effects and give a shimmying shoulder shrug. As my own body changed with swelling and shrinking over the recent years, so has my ‘envisioned’ ideas of motherhood. The same can be said for how I … Read more
From the very first time I let my young adult self be sweetly soaked in liquid courage, I rocked my ish on the dance floor. Even if this was the sober reality: You can call me the whitest Carlton you’ve ever met, I don’t care. There’s song in my heart and I just gotta dance. … Read more
It has been well over a year that we have been doing Speech and Language therapy with Levi. I can’t say enough about how it has improved his communication and therefore, his confidence. But there are still some words that both him and his sister just aren’t interested in using in the correct context or … Read more
The first time I took away half of my kids’ toys it involved an “incident” that happened while I was nursing the baby. (Maybe you remember this one….) The type of incident which included three jars of baby powder; me having an out-of-body experience of unreasonable calmness; a tearful vacuuming session (my tears mostly); and … Read more
SO YOU’RE PREGNANT WITH NUMBER TWO? And you will have two kids under the age of two? Congratulations! You are about to become a person held together by spanx, coffee and energy bars. But don’t worry, it won’t last long. That’s a lie, the hours and days will inch relentlessly along – it’s the years that … Read more