“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall……” -Oscar Wilde Enjoy the last bit of summer this weekend has in store. Come Tuesday we are starting a new season of life. A season that can bring happiness, change, challenges, blessings and most of all, another opportunity to become our best self and love living who… Read More
Recently Delaney went to Bring Your Kids to Work Day. There was a wealth of information she got to share on her name tag. The front side had her picture and she got to pick her favorite thing; that made me super proud because she wrote her family (and she did not know when writing… Read More
If you know me personally, you know I can sleep anywhere, at a minute’s notice too. I recently realized why, and I want to share my secret. Every time I close my eyes, I immediately – like a reflex – say a prayer. It is the same prayer every time. I was taught it as… Read More
Every August for the past 14 years, I have been blessed to get a night or two away with a dear friend who has a beach house. We sit on the beach for hours and ignore any clock. We talk about everything that is happening in our lives, the good, the bad, the ugly. We… Read More
It is going to get raw, buckle-up! I have put on weight, I know it. Maybe not as it was happening, in the moment when I was eating that dessert I did not need or having the second glass of wine. But one day, I woke up and said, enough; this is not me, not… Read More
Cambridge English Dictionary defines Vacation as the following, a time when someone does not go to work or school but is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax. I am a firm believe you need to vacation. Everyone needs time to not only recharge but enjoy their family with no obligations. It… Read More
Blessings come when you least expect them. A few weeks back I wrote about watching a little dog for our friends while they had their second baby. I shared that we loved every minute of having Penny with us. She got into a quick routine in the morning, greeting each girl to a new day… Read More
I think naturally people want to control what is happening around them. When it comes to parenting, we are flooded with dos and don’ts on a regular basis. As I get older and the girls get older, I find myself entering into a more relaxing parenting approach. Let me explain what I mean by that.… Read More
Happy 4th Weekend. Hope you are all celebrating Freedom, Family and Life! “The essence of America — that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea — and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t… Read More
We were asked to care for a little dog with a few hours’ notice. Of course, we said yes, we had not had a dog in the house since Ty and it has become a regular conversation that we needed a new dog. So, at dinner time we announced to the girls that in an… Read More