This is Pea. She is sweet and sassy and smart and clever and cunning. This morning, she asked for “cook-ahs” for breakfast. I said no. Two minutes later, she had a bag of animal crackers in her hand and was chomping away. On the floor, next to the pantry, was [...]

This is Atticus.

He’s one of our dogs. He is the sweetest care-taker of a dog you will ever know. When we brought Pea home from the hospital, nearly two years ago, he was always at her side, was very protective of her. He’s almost 8. I adopted him when he was [...]

I love Target. Like really, really love it. So much so that back in the day, somewhere around 2005, my husband asked me to stop doing our grocery shopping there because every Monday morning, I would return from the Target with a new American Express charge for about $200. For groceries. [...]

We love to read in this house. Whether it’s the Wall Street Journal, Us Magazine or a an actual book, we just love to read. I’ve been buying children’s books since I was 14 years old, in anticipation of one day having a kid snuggle up on my lap to read a story [...]

At The Little Gym today, the teacher stopped me and told me I was looking good – she said I’m getting smaller every week. My gosh did I need to hear that – I could have kissed her! We’ve been working the “Body After Baby” plan in our house now for about 2 [...]

Pea’s new tricycle.
She peddled on her own today for the first time.
I’m so proud of her!

I consider Pea to be a very complex little girl. On the one hand, she’s all girl. Wants to have her toenails painted bright red. Always has to have a dab of my lip-gloss when she catches me putting it on. Loves to wear dresses and ballet shoes and hair bows. [...]

Pea is turning two in a couple of weeks. My husband designed her invitations himself, around my current favorite photo of her, looking at the world through a screened window. Something about it just screams “Americana” to me – apple pie, baseball, midwestern farmhouses… so the theme morphed into an indoor picnic.

Unfortunately, no [...]

Ugh. I am over my hair. Several months ago, I read an article wherein Gwyneth Paltrow claimed that her prenatal vitamins were responsible for the lusciousness of her overly-long (really, would it kill her to cut off a few inches? She’s starting to look like Cousin It…) double-processed locks of hair. [...]

My second official Mother’s Day, the first one with two kids. I got a beautiful bouquet of flowers from an organic farm in Peru (interesting) that just keep blooming and smell incredible. I love fresh flowers and we’ve had a bouquet from this place before of lilies that lasted for weeks. I [...]

In response to my husband’s comment concerning my “granny panties” yesterday, I came downstairs today in what he lovingly refers to as my “fat girl guard.” I’m sure every woman out there is familiar with this item of clothing. It’s the piece that you tie around your waist to hide your bottom when [...]

I don’t think my husband has any idea what it takes to get an infant to sleep at night. If he did, then surely he would stop coming into her room while I am in the throes of nursing and rocking her down and ask me where the flashlight is because the dude from [...]

What a good day this was. After the hell of the last few (air conditioning leaking through the attic ceiling and down onto my farmhouse table in our dining room via a chandelier; flooding in our guesthouse & garage and the subsequent discovery of termites while the restoration crew was out there tearing out [...]

Coco is just coming up on 8 weeks, so I figure now is as good a time as any to try and introduce her to a bottle. This is a dream of mine, that she will willingly take one, so that I can get more than an hour out of the house by myself [...]

She always stops to smell the flowers. Always.
I could really learn something from her…