life’s simplest pleasures and life’s greatest joys : all hung from a clothesline.
I am often asked how I make time for reading, how I stay sane with three small children at home, how I can volunteer and balance all that I do. Here’s the deal, I don’t have trouble getting things done. Sometimes I drive those around me batty with my motivation and intensity. I can keep […]
We love traditions. Here are a few wedding anniversary traditions I’m so glad we started right at the beginning. 1. We celebrate. 2. We have traded off planning our annual celebration. 3. We chose to loosely adhere to traditional wedding gifts. See the list here under “gifts.” 4. Every year we ask each other […]
Seasons, phases, transitions. They rule my life. One of my favorite parenting tips is to remember that for most ‘things,’ good or bad, “it’s just a phase.” I use that to remind myself to enjoy the good ones and not stress about the bad ones. Cashel is doing lots of mixing, pouring, and overall mess […]
So we did something, just the two of us. We took a vacation… at home. This weekend we dropped off my three boys to grandparent-extraordinaires Nona & Dandad. We headed to dinner and boy did we eat. We ordered exactly what we wanted, which meant a slew of appetizers instead of a main dish and […]