Tag: Holidays

Father’s Day is fast approaching (it’s next Sunday, June 19th in case you were wondering). I thought it would be fun to do another Father’s Day gift guide for some pretty awesome gift ideas for that very deserving dad in your life. For me, that has become celebrating the father of my children. Andrew really … Continue reading “Father’s Day Gift Guide 2016”

Woo! What a way to kick off summer! We were so lucky to have wonderful weather after what felt like a solid week of rain and spent the weekend right. We went to the community pool on opening day, then spent Sunday with our close group of neighbors at one of the neighbor’s parent’s house … Continue reading “(Memorial Day) Weekend Shenanigans”

What a wonderful weekend. We had lovely spring weather sprinkled with thunderstorms — we sat on our front porch on Saturday afternoon as a family: Milo swinging gently with his nose in a book (where it is about 80% of the time these days), Oliver drinking tea, and Emil quietly, intently sweeping the dust off … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your responses to last week’s posts. I loved reading the comments and emails and was so touched by you sharing pieces of your life and thoughts with me. Thank you! You are all awesome! Andrew and I spent our 9th anniversary well. The night before, I snuck around … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

This weekend was pretty darn near perfect. We had been anxiously checking the weather forecast for the past week leading up to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt, and every day it looked like rain, rain, rain. Miraculously, we had sunshine all weekend long, up until late Sunday afternoon, just when we were completely tuckered out … Continue reading “Easter Weekend Shenanigans”