Quick side story: I’ve been wanting to do more writing and finding it tricky to fit it into our wild summer schedule, so my awesome therapist and life guru recommended that I try a new app called Otter to capture thoughts and ideas. You record your thoughts and it creates a transcript for you. The […]
Category: House & Home
Our sweet, old furry girl Zoey has me so smitten these days. She’s a long-haired, black, 13.75 year old dog, so summer is not nearly her best season. This morning, I got a slow start so it was already steamy when we departed for our morning walk. Two blocks in, she found some shade cover […]
I was talking with a woman recently about her adventures in closet cleanouts. She is preparing for a move, listing her house, and doing it all with twin toddlers. She explained the post-baby master closet comb-through I remember doing after each of our boys came into our lives — the ones that involves considering your […]
While getting dressed for a long-awaited date night this weekend, I reached for the first piece of jewelry my husband gifted me long, long ago in a land far away back when our relationship was still shiny, new, and exciting. I remember the air coming out of my lungs when he handed me my very […]
We can be flexible. We can be flexible. We can be flexible. We can be flexible. If we have a family mantra, this might be it. We have two neurodiverse children that are not known for their go-with-the-flowness. Flexibility is something we’re actively cultivating every damn day in our household. It’s what we aspire to, […]
After weeks of holidays, illnesses, snow days, and tidal waves of errands and tasks, I woke up Monday morning to a blank slate on my calendar — no appointments, no scheduled work or meetings, no agenda. When you’re a mom and wife with a job, a contracting position, and a side business, just the thought […]
Working for a residential home designer during a global pandemic has been, well, fascinating. There was a month early-on where the phones got a little quiet for comfort — that first April when everyone was hunkering down, figuring out how to do their jobs from home, become teachers for their children, establish a black market […]
Day 31. A month of quarantine. The longest month…ever in my life. How am I? Well, I don’t really know. How are you? In ways, I’ve sort of relished this forced slow down. No rushed mornings. A little extra sleep. A lot of extra family time. So much baking. Lots of yummy food. And no […]
There is nothing sexier than fresh white trim. Nothing. Now if that sounds a wee bit dramatic, let me paint you a picture of my family in our natural habitat: a filthy human tornado of a 5-year-old a sensory-seeking 7-year-old that jumps, spins, crashes, and experiments his way through his every waking minute a long-haired […]
I promised to amuse you with “shit I like” posts, but this time around we’re coming at this from the “shit I really don’t like most of the time” angle. There are sorts of things out there that *seem* like a good idea, but the design just sucks. Bottom line: a good idea only turns into shit we like if it works. Enter these blasted no-show socks…
