This past week, Kayla and I spent four days in Seattle to work and visit close friends. Coming from San Diego where things are just starting to cool down to a “frigid” sixty degrees, this trip was an abrupt introduction to winter. I spent the week leading up to our trip scrambling to replace Kayla’s outgrown cold weather clothes.
We are entering the season of perpetual childhood joy. If you’re like me, you leapt in headfirst on November 1st, after exercising much restraint through the later days of October. For our family, it’s not about fast forwarding through other holidays, it’s about maximizing the season of cheer.
If the holiday season is about spending quality time with family, keeping those in need top of mind and creating magic for our children, then yes, I’ll take two months instead of a few weeks. Sign. Me. Up. [Read more…]
As we closed out the first month of school, I packed and prepped our family to head to Palm Springs for the first time as a family of four. The last time we were there, I was incredibly pregnant with Blake. This time, he was riding a scooter and ready to join Kayla in all of the fun. Yes, time is flying.
Craig and I continue to come back to the same resort because the villas are built around a series of shallow ponds, paths and bridges that are peppered with ducks. There are no cars and you can see the entirety of the property, so it’s a place where we can relax and parent from afar. It’s about as close as you can get to the old school “go out and play” experience many of us had as kids. [Read more…]
Hair is a funny thing. It can make or break an outfit, it can be an expression of who you are and it has the magical power to change the way you feel.
Earlier this year, Dove Hair found that 8 in 10 women feel pressure to wear their hair a certain way. As women, how we feel about ourselves and our bodies isn’t an opinion formed overnight or at the age of 13, 18, or 25. It starts far younger than that. It starts when we’re barely school age and it almost always starts at home. [Read more…]
I don’t know how we got here, but it’s fall. Again. That whole saying “the days are long but the years are short” sure does seem to ring true. Somewhere between the basket of gourds and the display of pumpkin bread in the grocery store it dawned on me that while I’d been embracing every last second of summer I had some mom chores to do for fall.
You know, like making sure Blake and Kayla have clothes. And coats. Oh and shoes! It’s always the shoes that get me. Just when I think I deserve my gold star for remembering to buy winter coats while it’s still 80 degrees in San Diego I realize I’ve forgotten the shoes. [Read more…]
Oh yes! Kayla is not the only one who went back to school this year. She was recently joined by a pint sized Blake who is making his mark on the two’s class at the same preschool she went to. It’s wild to think that he was just a BABY and now he’s a little person insisting he wear a backpack each morning though he doesn’t actually need one. Hold me.
