So this year, we are doing something different in our house, for the first time ever in the history, albeit short one, of our little family. We will be celebrating Hanukkah in addition to Christmas. I’m Jewish. My husband is Christian. And although I’m not religious, I am trying to be [...]

Mango Mama, over at Living Out Loud Now, tagged me to do this “meme” thing. I’m not entirely clear on what it is, or how and where it started, but I’ve seen it on a lot of the blogs that I read regularly. I have to admit, being tagged by someone whom I [...]

I’ve noticed over the last few days that Pea has been overly interested in her hair. And by interested, I mean she’s been pulling it out, a strand here and a strand there. I assumed that since she was sick and was a snot machine that she was pulling out pieces that were [...]

I. Am. Over. It.
Pea is killing me with her attitude today. She has grown so accustomed over the last few days to being coddled and pampered and catered to that I fear we have created a pretty little… monster. And it’s not that I think we shouldn’t have taken extra-special [...]

Day 4 of Pea’s ear infection and we are finally getting kind of close to seeing the end of this thing. It’s been brutal. Her sleep, which was finally on track, has just gone to hell. She snores so loudly we can hear her all the way upstairs. She cries in [...]

Yesterday morning, I rushed out to Target right as they were opening. We were in dire need of diapers for both girls. I refused to go into any store on Black Friday, but I also knew that Saturday wouldn’t be much better, so I made a beeline over there while my family was [...]

My friend Nona, the Everyday Yogini, has started a 5-minute gratitude list. Every Saturday, she writes a list of what she is grateful for. I love the idea. While on a daily basis you can hear me saying things like “I’m so fortunate,” or “we’re so lucky,” or “aren’t we blessed?” [...]

Pea is sick today. For the first time in her 2.5 years on earth. Sure, she’s had sniffles before, a cough here and there. But she’s never been sick. Never needed antibiotics or anything of that nature. Up until today, that is.
She woke up with a fever. It spiked [...]

I ate way too much food today. It should be illegal to eat as much as I did. But I kept justifying it by saying “it’s Thanksgiving, it comes once a year…” Well, in all honestly it might just take me the rest of the year to recover.
Today, I’m most thankful [...]

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. A day I look forward to all year long. It’s my absolute favorite holiday and always has been. I suppose it has to do with the food. I love food.
These are the things I’m giving thanks for right now:
My family, of course. An obvious choice, right? [...]

I made a delicious dinner tonight for the family to enjoy together. Steak au poivre, green beans sauteed with a little butter and sea salt and *roasted cauliflower with parmesan. We opened a bottle of Robert Mondavi 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (possibly the best $10 bottle of red around. And you can find [...]

We have a very small den, it used to be part of our backyard. Now it’s a small passageway between the main part of the house and the new upstairs addition. Two walls are the original brick and the old windows are still there, although they now have shelves on them. It’s [...]

Lots of beauty products to write about lately. But this time of the year always brings about changing (and challenging) skin care needs, and thus I end up trying a lot of new products in my never-ending search for the perfect one for my… chapped lips, dry cuticles, itchy legs… you get the picture.
I [...]

When I made the decision a couple of months ago to try and “green” up our lives here in Fort Worth, I stumbled upon an amazing site called Saffron Rouge that specializes in organic beauty and skin care products for the entire family. But I forgot about the site, until I once again stumbled [...]

Today was my first Friday with our new nanny, Jen. She came in at 10 this morning, watched Coco while I took Pea to the park. Just the two of us. For a glorious hour of swinging and chasing each other down the slides. We threw dried leaves at one another. [...]