When you think about raising a little girl, you think you’ll need pastel-colored everything and loads of barbie dolls. You think you’ll be seeing a sweet little thing setting up her stuffed animals for a tea party and wanting to play dress-up all of the time. I mean, at least, that’s what I thought it…
Category: Everything Else
Take me away… to a green island!
I have become obsessed with the color green. I want it everywhere in our house. Everywhere….. Let me start by saying, I love our kitchen. There are countertops as far as the eye can see. But, in recent weeks, the island has started to bother me. There’s just so much darkness. Black and brown,…
Decade Roundup
“I have another friend who has a Video Blog and she did a decade roundup, you should do one of those!” said my only friend who gives me blog post ideas. I mean, I don’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but sure, let’s see how this goes. 2010: Junior in high school, I…
Thanksgiving Week in review
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Actually, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving week. Here are a few of the highlights: 1. New carseats!! Lee got a new carseat and Evie inherited Lee’s old carseat in each vehicle. We had quite the operation going on. Also, on the same day, we had gravel delivered and D made…
Sweet Morningtime
On a typical weekday, our morning routine is simple and relatively smooth. Lee will wake up between 4:00 and 5:00 A.M. and crawl between D and I. D’s alarm will go off at 5:00. He gets up and goes to the bathroom to get ready. I get up, grab Lee a cup of milk from…
Live your life
“I feel like everyone we know is out here chasing their own version of the American Dream and you and I, baby we’re just living our lives”. This sounds like a line out of a country song, doesn’t it? It’s not. D said this to me when we were on our way home from our…
Farewell old friends
When Lee first started walking, and I mean REALLY walking, I bought him a pair of grey and navy New Balance tennis shoes (aka hims tennies). They were too big, but he loved them, so we decided to make them work. Yesterday, 6 months in, after countless wash cycles, the time had come… for new shoes. (Moment…
Waving good-bye to June
Wait, June is gone? Ju-lying! (Yeah, D didn’t think it was funny either.) We did so much in June, it was insane!! D and I had house plans drawn up (thanks Dad!) and took them to a contractor. This was incredibly exciting, however, absolutely terrifying. What is money, even? Where does it come from? Who…
Love and marriage
This morning, while waiting on my coffee to begin working its magic, I scrolled through my Facebook feed and saw a few things that I thought were silly. Petty. Childish. Why do so many people marry someone they don’t even like? And then, why would you call attention to the fact that you don’t like your significant other?…
A week in the life
Our life, lately, has been…..interesting. ABC Song Recently, I have started singing Lee the ABC song. It’s funny, actually, because he absolutely hates when I rinse the soap out of his hair in the bathtub. D discovered last week that he will usually stay somewhat calm as long as you do not get his ears…
Dogs & Diapers 