Has it really been 6 months? It never ceases to amaze me how new family members slip in and effortlessly create a new normal. Life without them cannot be fathomed. For all the challenges we had with her food sensitivities and colic, we wouldn’t have traded the last 6 months with our precious little girl […]
Family
anticipating adventures…
Adventure is here. My baby sister is just weeks away from meeting her first baby face-to-face. And so we celebrate. We celebrate this new little life. We celebrate the beginning of motherhood. We celebrate the growing of a family. Our nursery theme when we were babies centered around Winnie the Pooh. My sister and her […]
Party On…
Proof that my kids do indeed eat sugar! It definitely brings out the sillies. Time spent around the dinner table, laughing, making silly faces – trying to outdo one another. These are the memories that stick with us, don’t they? For Treyton’s birthday, I found a dairy-free chocolate ganache recipe for the frosting. I forgot to buy powdered […]
He’s Still Three Party!
Am I the only one out there who teases my kids about staying little?!?!?!? I kid them all the time about ‘staying three {or five, or seven} forever’… Birthdays are a constant reminder to cherish the beauty of each and every age. It also reminds me that the struggles during that given age are fleeting as […]
Upheaval
Sadness and contentment. Exhaustion and ecstasy. Somehow they all coexist right now. It has been a roller coaster ride these last two months as huge changes have taken place in my family. And the timing is just too weird to be chocked up to random chance. Providence is at work and confusion melts away into […]
There and Back…
We survived our Texas trip. Here’s a rundown of 10 random things about our trip… 1. Humidity – It wasn’t that bad. I was a total baby about it and we didn’t even have the opportunity to pretend we were in the rainforests of South America. The only obvious links were more bugs and GREEN. Although […]