Okay, plug for the French here. They’ve been on my mind since my mother, GiGi, just left town earlier today. A handful of her parting words to me, as she was getting out of the car at the airport, were, “well, the French do just do it better. All of it…”
Out of context, perhaps? Not [...]

I never really did get the nesting bug towards the end of either of my pregnancies. I wonder if it’s because I’m always kind of nesting? Working on projects, houses, cooking? So I didn’t feel the need? Perhaps.
But now? Nesting. Big-time. No, huge time…
Some things I’m working on…
My second knitting lesson. My first was a [...]

I once had an overly affectionate love affair with Target. Back when we lived in Fort Worth. I was there weekly. Twice weekly. My husband seems to think that there were times when I was actually there daily. But I can defend that one – there was a Starbucks in it!
But since moving to Utah, [...]

Okay, there are just some days that, more so than others, have me feeling like I am a complete and total mess. A walking disaster of epic proportions. This is one of those days. Because I can’t find my camera. And I am seriously bummed. It’s gone. Vanished. All I can muster up is the [...]

Coco is passionate about butterflies. She’s constantly talking about them, pointing them out in pictures, giving me butterfly kisses with her impossibly long eyelashes.
So one of her birthday gifts was a little collector’s case with a dozen butterflies in it. And for a week, she dragged that box of butterflies with her everywhere she went. [...]

In the end, I went with the swirls. While I do love the whole nesting theme for a baby shower, birds and all, in the end I decided that since this is #2 for my girlfriend, we’re going to keep it simple. As in a sprinkle, not a full-on shower. I’m still working on the [...]

This one is going to be brief. I’m sick again. Sinus infection. Another round of pink eye. Gross, right? What kind of a 36-year old woman has pink eye, nearly every day, for 10 weeks? I guess the mother of these two little girls who bring home everything known to man. And then bring it [...]

Why do kids have so much stuff? Some days I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in random collections of nothing. I regularly go through the girls’ toys and make piles for donations. Toys, puzzles and games that are too ‘old’ for them get put away for later days. Broken pieces get mended or [...]

A girlfriend of mine is having a baby the first week of May. It’s a girl. And as the mother of a 4-year old boy, I know she is thrilled beyond at the prospect of pink. Pink. Pink. Pink. And then some more pink. Who could resist?
I offered to host her baby shower. I love [...]

We’re still laid up in this house. Ear infections, fevers… the list goes on. I’m beyond the ‘woe is me’ point. In fact, I’m almost at the brink. My husband is in Vancouver for two weeks, Pea has been home from school all week, and I’m working feverishly on getting all of our tax documentation [...]

I love to give gifts. I just love it. I love to find the perfect something for that someone that’s going to make their day. And it doesn’t just have to be for a birthday or a holiday. I like to give gifts. Period. Who needs an occasion?
Up until about one month ago, I never [...]

I was disappointed when I heard that Domino magazine was shutting down. Disappointed. But not surprised. It seems like all of the good reads are disappearing these days. It’s just a shame.
But in the footsteps of Small magazine – an online-only read that I enjoy from time to time – walks another parenting ‘mag’ – [...]