mother's day

a day to celebrate what i love to be. it just might be my favorite day of the year. this year's day is especially special because i feel complete. bonzo and mushy together make me what i am...

what a month

april was a big month for mushy. she learned to clap and point in its earliest days, and now she's headed into may, a bonafide crawler with one tooth and another on its way! yesterday i set her...

quick change

you may or may not notice a new url above – www.bonzochoochmushyandme.com. it may take a minute or two to work out the kinks so if things are a little weird around here for a bit, that's why. i...

parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme

yesterday morning in the three quiet minutes i had before we left to go grocery shopping, i opened up my new favorite cookbook to get a little inspiration. i wasn't really planning on trying...

in process

preschool pick-up is at 12:30. bonzo goes two mornings a week and when mushy and i arrive at 12:20, we walk up to the lunch table with 10 little smiling faces sitting in front of 10 little lunches...

if you're happy and you know it

we've got a clapper over here! she's all about clapping now and it's so cute it almost hurts to watch. her pudgy little hands – those sweet dimpled knuckles and chunky fingers – clapping together...

mushy lately

this girl. she's this close to crawling. she gets up on her little hands and knees and can make a little bit of headway but it won't be long until she's going for it. look out, world – here comes...

released

today's been on my radar for a while now. funny because a few months ago, april 2nd felt like forever away. and here it is – already. seems like a recurring theme in my life: time flying by a...

in the swing of spring

watched

i wish i could say that when the kids go to sleep that i tip-toe out of the room and busy myself reading, knitting, cooking, cleaning, organizing, exercising or sitting in the backyard sipping a...

the bonz

this guy and that old, three dollar headband of mine that i got who-knows-where a hundred years ago. the other morning while getting ready to go on our morning walk, he just popped it on his little...

where does the time go?

last year, this time. and this year: i don't want to let this little space of mine slip through my fingers – but lately i've been feeling it start to slide. it's just so hard to find the time to do...

our little boy, our baby girl

it's a little crazy how quickly the time is flying by. i guess it's the ultimate parenting cliché for a reason: time goes by way too fast. mushy is eight months old. eight. months. old. she's my...

crowd pleaser

i decided to step it up and make the chooch a meal he'd love – that otherwise i wouldn't exactly be inclined to attempt, let alone eat: ribs. turns out they're the easiest thing in the world to...

xoxo

i'm so happy to have two (well, three, counting choo choo) valentines this year... love to you and yours from me and mine.

wish you were here

believe me, i feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful place. it's easy to take for granted that we live where people vacation but i try not to. i make a point to appreciate the beauty around me...

our frothy favorite: homemade almond milk

one of our favorite things to make is almond milk. it's easy, healthy, delicious – so much pay off for minimal effort! when a pal posted about how she makes it last year i had a serious a-ha...

these two

and mushy, too.

when i started this blog, bonzo, chooch and me was what we were. i remember chooch asking me how i'd feel about the name i'd chosen when we had another baby and brushing it off because it all just...

twenty thirteen

i've never really been much of a list maker when it comes to resolutions – though i could make a list for just about any other thing i can think of. but lately i've been feeling like my head – and...

squeaky clean

i've mentioned before that bonzo loves to wash his hands. he sure did – and he still does. the water, the soap, the bubbles, the rinsing. and talk about wash, rinse, repeat! once he gets started...

season's greetings

one of my favorite parts of this time of year is the sending – and receiving – of christmas cards. a month of getting fun mail everyday? bonzo loves it. this is our fourth holiday season getting...

quick. easy. yummy. pretty.

'tis the season of gifts. big gifts, small gifts, edible gifts – and last minute, easy gifts. sure, baking cookies is a fun and easy enough stand-by for gift giving but isn't this also the season...

what we're working on, what's working.

this post has been swimming around in my head for the past week or two. today's the day it's turning from thoughts to pixels. so, here goes. three year olds: cute, awesome, fun – challenging. we're...

getting a grip, getting it together.

when i'm able to see things clearly, i can recognize that the past six months have been a bit of a whirlwind... and i can be a little more forgiving with myself for not staying on top of the things...

okay, it's officially fall

oh, hello november. how'd you get here so fast? this is the time of year where i start believing that fall is actually here. it's usually in the 80s until halloween here so the weather doesn't...

loving lately

i always love hearing about how other people – okay, moms – streamline and organize and what they're using and loving. so here's a little round-up of what's helping keep this boat afloat these...

we call her sergeant mushy

not sure when or why but somewhere along the line we called baby sister sergeant mushy. you know, like sergeant murphy – but sergeant mushy. and wouldn't you know it – it's the name that stuck. so...

lately around here

the cuteness piles up way faster than i could possibly keep up with. backlogged with cuteness: it could be worse.

on the road

we hit the road earlier in the month – up to tahoe for a family wedding! believe it or not, i'd never been there. crazy for a california girl, if you ask me. also crazy: 8+ hours in the car with an...