1) This litograph of Jane Austen’s Emma is actually made from the text of the book. My friend Mary emailed the link to me and when I opened it I was like Yes. Mary gets me. 2) I love these earr...
Sometimes I have opportunities as a blogger where companies ask me to write on a certain topic. I love that because it’s nice to have fresh writing prompts and be creative and also get paid bec...
I’ve been wanting to play along with What I Wore Wednesday for awhile now but seriously could not get my act together to take my picture every day. I finally had some motivation in the form of ...
Today I am welcoming meg duerksen from whatever – she is guest posting about crafting with kids (+ a chance to win a $100 Visa Gift Card!) when Clorox® asked me to write about making messes wit...
If you were a fly on the wall in my house recently, these are the things you would have seen and heard: - While playing in the pool sans diaper because Mommy totally hasn’t caught on that ownin...
I’m currently writing a few posts for a series called Life Well Lived where basically, I answer all of life’s most important questions. I’m very wise. Except not really. Really I...
Dear Scarlette, I still have to finish your letter from last month, that’s how busy you’ve been keeping me. You’ve learned to say “go” and that is what you do all day lo...
I took my niece and Scarlette (who my niece refers to as “Beans”) to the library last Saturday. I was wearing Scarlette in my sling and reading books while my niece worked on some puzzles...
Once upon a time I made a chicken pot pie. And it was delicious and we all lived happily ever after, the end. And also, Jeff took it to work for lunch. Which is a sign that when he said “dinner...
When I was a little girl, my cousins and I would spend our days playing outdoors, anxiously awaiting the jingling melody that announced the arrival of the most important part of summer: the ice cream...
INSURGENT by Veronica Roth INSURGENT is the much-anticipated sequel to Veronica Roth’s bestselling book DIVERGENT. If you haven’t read Divergent yet, stop reading because this review will...
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Here is a quick tutorial on how to install all of those cute, free fonts you’ve downloaded to your computer! STEP ONE | Click on the font that you want to download and then click OK in the dial...
I love meeting new bloggers and I especially love meeting local bloggers so I’m linking up with Kelly’s Korner today. That’s also why I’m singing bad American Idol songs, you ...
I did not pose this baby. She did all those things on her own. This is how sassy she is. As we leave the confines of quarantine and make our debut in to the world of playdates and baby gyms and visit...
We had such a wonderful walk on Saturday for our local chapter of the March Of Dimes. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to walk and celebrate Scarlette’s one year NICU graduation with us!...
If you follow me on twitter or facebook or instagram (obviously I have a social media problem) then this week you got real time updates of the saga that occurred between me and a bottle of self tanni...
Someone got to meet their hero (affectionately known in our family as “Melmo”) this weekend and they were over-the-moon excited about it. And Scarlette was pretty happy about it too. Shaw...
1) This camera bag. I am obsessed with it. I mean, it’s a yellow hobo bag for your camera. Who isn’t obessed with this, that’s the real question. Apparently everyone because it is o...
This child. She is obsessed with her shoes. Those silver shoes with the bows on them? She loves them. They are too small but she loves to carry them around the house and so, softie that I am, I put t...
Dear Scarlette, When you were in the NICU, I sang to you a lot. In the month before I was allowed to hold you, I would open one of the little porthole doors on your isolette so that you could wrap o...
- Scarlette’s like “Hey, when are y’all going to finish staining these steps?” - Scarlette learned to blow me kisses. It’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I’...
Here is what I’ve learned upon coming out of quarantine: Lesson One: Do not give your car keys to your toddler in order to occupy them while you are grocery shopping. It might seem like a good ...
April 12, 2011 we brought our Scarlette home from the NICU after five and a half long months. She is seventeen months old and today marks the day that she has lived with us for one entire year. On th...
I’m taking part in a series called Life Well Lived, where I answer questions like I’m an expert. I’m not an expert but it appeals to my life long quest to be Dear Abby so please ind...
So, two weeks ago we planned to take Scarlette to her first easter egg hunt with my niece. Only we had to cancel at the last minute because we ended up in Urgent Care that morning. Then we decided to...
Jeff was traveling for work last week so we spent this weekend getting our fill of family time. Blue sparkly jellies have made it on to the list of shoes that Scarlette deems “acceptable footwe...
We are officially out of lockdown! Goodbye winter quarantine, hello spring! So in celebration of being able to leave our house, I decided to take Scarlette to the 0-2 Story Time at our local library...
Our walk for Team Scarlette takes place exactly one month from today! I’m especially excited about this year’s March For Babies walk because it falls right after the anniversary of Scarle...
First of all, round of applause for me for sticking to this for twelve entire weeks. That is exactly eleven weeks and six days longer than I stuck to my I-swear-I’m-going-to-sti ck-to-this house...
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