Christmas with a 2 year old kicks all other Christmas’s Ass

When you have a kid I think one of the things you look forward to most is holidays. You picture all of the amazing things you’ll do to commemorate the holiday…. gingerbread houses, baking cookies, seeing Santa Claus. All magical and amazing. And then their first Christmas you realize they are 3 months old and [...]

My first born

She’s spunky, full of sass and so smart it’s scary. She loves fruit snacks & lollipops like they are her job. She already rolls her eyes at me and says “okay” in a tone that makes me fearful of the teenage years. She can sing a dozen songs, say her alphabet, count in English & [...]

Madison’s 2nd Birthday: The Details

If you missed my post about all of the food… you can check that out here. I’m very lucky to know lots of talented people… so lucky in fact that I should blame them all for being enablers. They make life so easy that I have never been forced to design or sew something myself. [...]

Madison’s Big Girl Room

We moved Madison into her “Big Girl” room back sometime in April or May so it seems only appropriate that I’m just now getting to post pictures of it in October. Damn kids, they really get in the way of my blogging. A photographer I am not so please just look past the photo quality [...]

The box

There’s a box that sits in the corner of my bathroom gathering dust & dog hair tumbleweeds. Sometimes fully exposed, often times poking out from a pile of wet towels and dirty clothes. Such a peculiar & meaningless home for an object that I allow to dictate my self worth. This box spews numbers out [...]