We have TiVo. Actually, we have several TiVos. Okay, we have one in every room. And it’s not that we watch a lot of television, because we don’t. But once you’ve had TiVo, you cannot go back. You just cannot. I have no idea what stations correlate to what channels any more, or what day [...]

Not that long ago, Krista, from Organize in Style, asked me if I would write a guest post on her site about my family’s move from Texas to Utah. I jumped at the chance. I thought, hey, I’ve moved a lot. I know stuff. I can share my wisdom and insight. And then, as I [...]

Two days ago, Pea left a red crayon in her pants pocket. Red! Bright red! This is the first time it’s ever happened, although I’m sure not the last time it’ll happen. And it got washed in hot water with a load of her and Coco’s clothes and made it’s way into the dryer and [...]

My husband disappeared for a little while this afternoon. When I finally found him, he was in the driveway, finishing up a major detail job on his beloved truck. He had, apparently, just finished cleaning the windows, and was standing back to admire his handiwork. I walked out with a large bag of recycling for [...]

My friend Nona, the Everyday Yogini, randomly chose me to be one of the beneficiaries of the “pay it forward” that’s been floating around. It’s like a chain letter when you were a kid, wondering when it’s going to get to your home (or in this case in-box). She’s sending me, and two other lucky [...]

Ugh. What a week. It started off with a bang, but now here we are, Saturday evening, and yet again, both girls have a rattle in their chest, Pea couples her rattle with a runny nose, and I had some weird stomach virus that I gave to my husband, who promptly gave it back to [...]

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 where we house [...]

I do not clean. I don’t even make beds. I think it’s some kind of a deliberate rebellion against my childhood, when as the oldest child of a single and hard-working mother, I had way too many “chores” to do. So now, I am a 35-year old woman who will argue over who actually got [...]

I am overwhelmed. This whole pantry thing has me thinking maybe I’ve bitten off more than I can chew right now. I wandered aimlessly around the aisles of Target this morning while Pea was at school, just looking at my list and looking at the shelves and looking at my list and looking at the [...]

My quest to reorganize my pantry has turned into a project of monumental proportions. Although we have a pretty little kitchen, it is just that. Little. It’s galley-style and so short on counter space and even shorter on storage space. And for someone who loves to cook as much as I do, it can be [...]

When Pea was born, we went organic. I bought all of our produce at Whole Foods once a week. And then our grocery store started carrying organic, as well, so I didn’t have to drive to Dallas anymore for the produce. I think this is pretty common for women to start doing this once they [...]

When it rains, I am literally up to my eyeballs in laundry. With two large dogs running in and out of the backyard, it takes two towels per trip to clean them up before they can even think about coming back in the house. And it’s raining again today. Add into the equation a two-year [...]

It’s a quiet Saturday morning here in Fort Worth. After waffles, smoothies & a very long watercolor painting session, Pea announced to me that she was ready to take a nap. This doesn’t happen often in our house, that she asks us to put her down for a nap. But she insisted she was tired [...]

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 large [...]

When I was pregnant with my first daughter, my mother (whom we call GiGi) was so happy (and relieved) she was finally going to be a grandmother that she wanted to just buy us everything we could possibly ever need for our little baby’s nursery. And we pretty much let her. Well, at least we [...]