A charming attempt at a life well-lived.
Summer’s farewell to kindergarten (three weeks ago 🙈)! Sweet Summer Elise, you are my shining star. You made it – I made it – we made it through a season that could have crushed us, but it made us stronger and brought us closer. I’m so proud of you and the beautiful person you continue […]
The tradition continues: yellow flowers and sweet treats for my little love on her half-birthday. Is it adorable? Yes. Is it silly? Yes. Do we care? No. ‘Cause what is life if we don’t make it fun and special? Celebrate the little things, make memories, drip strawberry cheesecake ice cream with enchanted unicorn sprinkles down […]
By now you probably know that one of my life mottos is “Something Green with Every Meal” (on permanent loan from my dear friend, Laurie) and with today being St. Patrick’s Day, I really needed to go for the gold! Kiss me, I’m Irish. My maternal great-grandparents immigrated from Cork, Ireland to Boston back in […]
Let me guess. Somewhere, in a safe place, you keep a box that holds the lone portrait of your grandparents’ mid-twentieth-century nuptials. In an envelope tucked securely inside an old photo album hides your father’s Navy photo. You have an external disk drive filled with hundreds of images of flora and fauna from the tropical […]
Where do I begin? My last post was a month ago tonight. Somewhere between the national anthem and posting a photo of the pizza we had made as a family the day before during our first afternoon all together since mid-December, my favorite glass hobnail cake stand came crashing down from the top shelf of […]
I had no idea when I blissfully took my big-balloon birthday photo last year to celebrate my 46th trip around the sun that the days that were about to follow would be the hardest ones of my life. I’m tempted to say the worst, but I can’t. They were also the greatest gift. For all […]
Have you ever chosen a “Word of the Year” before? I haven’t. This is my first time. Through the years I’ve made New Year’s resolutions, set goals and intentions, and saved many dream and vision boards on Pinterest, but in reality, most of those practices just turned out to be little ceremonies in of themselves […]
My heart is heavy. Even with the glow of the January sun pouring through the window—because it’s the only friend we can welcome inside. Even with my little darling reading Joanna Gaines’s beautiful, new book The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be—because now she’ll be reading from home this week with her preschool […]
I’m feeling all the feels today. I started hormone therapy for breast cancer three days ago, and as I wake each day, anxiously awaiting the impending side effects I’ve been warned of, I’m deeply grieving everything they’ve told me I’ll lose upon being thrust into medical menopause. It’s disorienting trying to feel present while my […]
I was the little girl whose dad had to constantly remind her, “Honey, you can’t have everything.” It heavied my idealistic heart — not out of entitlement, but out of a “can we really not find a solution for this?” optimism. As an adult, I yielded to harsh reality: You can have it cheap, fast, […]