Oh my gosh, Coco is teething. Hard. I’m changing her shirts up to six times a day (and sometimes her pants, too!) because of all the drool. Both of my shoulders are sore from being gummed by her, as are my fingers. And my once happy-to-sleep-all-night little baby is now waking up three times a [...]

GiGi, my mother, sent Pea a book today called “Good Night Chicago.” I sat in the room with my husband as he was reading it to Pea at bedtime and I can’t believe how much I miss living in Chicago. It was such a sweet book and it brought back so many happy memories of [...]

I can’t believe I’m even going to admit this out loud, but here goes… My name is Melissa, and I’m a Weight Watcher. Yes, I signed on last Sunday and began first thing that Monday morning. I am just so determined to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, and after hours and hours on that [...]

I am a beauty product junkie. Chances are, if you can name it, I have tried it. Sometimes I wonder if my husband thinks that his sole purpose for working so hard is so that I can try literally each and every hair straightening product on the planet. And lip gloss. And shampoo, too. Come [...]

I am obsessed with eyebrows. It’s the first thing I notice on a woman (and sometimes on men, too). I blame this on my mother, she has her own obsession with eyebrows. My eyebrows, to be exact. Over the years I’ve heard every critique under the sun from her… “they’re too short, too long, too [...]

The girls and I drove into Dallas today to spend the afternoon with my in-laws at their club. Pea went swimming… in her seersucker hat… and her yellow lady-bug hat… while Coco relaxed in the sun in her “Life is Good” hat… And then the rains came… and washed away all the fun and we [...]

Each and every day, Pea is growing and learning. So much so that it blows my mind how much these little people take in and make sense of throughout the day, from minute to minute. And she’s always been a special soul, she is affectionate and friendly and shares readily. She’s always smiling and joyful [...]

Ugh. My gung-ho approach to potty training this past weekend did not go as planned. I do not have a daughter who is apparently willing to actually pee in a potty. She will sit on it for hours and read books, will eat a snack on it and will wear it on her head, but [...]

On the way to the airport this evening, my husband checked his Blackberry only to find that his outgoing flight to Vegas was delayed by a couple of hours. Not knowing what else to do, we headed over to this nice outdoor mall in the area. We stopped into Anthropologie, a store I never really [...]