Lifestyle

To me, new year’s goals are for overarching changes in habits and lifestyle to make my life more of what I want it to be. I love and feel very grateful for my life, and want to make it more … Read More

It’s always fun to look back to see the most popular blog posts of the year. I love seeing what you all have loved and what has been helpful to you both at home and while traveling! It also helps … Read More

I have extremely thick frizzy hair. You know that episode of Friends when Monica’s hair keeps getting bigger and bigger in the Barbados? That’s basically my hair. You’ve probably seen this hair tool mentioned a lot on the Internet, but here’s … Read More

Are you wondering what summer activities to do with kids? Here’s a list of 270+ simple things to do with kids this summer that will provide hours of entertainment and fun all season long. We have exactly one forbidden word … Read More

How was your Pi Day?  We had a party and there was much pie and good friends.  What more could one want?  Nothing, there is nothing more anyone could want.  My mom has her master’s in math, so Pi Day … Read More

(First things first…happy happy birthday to my witty, ambitious, kind, gorgeous sister!) Confession time…I’m not always a ginormous fan of banana bread.  I know!  Evil. They’re just usually too…banana-y?  I don’t know. Anyway, this basic version of this was the … Read More

When we were putting together our registry before getting married, I was inexplicably thrilled to register for a melon baller.  I have no explanation for this.  In the nearly 6 years we’ve been married, I think I’ve used that thing … Read More

Until this weekend, I’d never before put chocolate chips in my pancakes. It was…life changing. I mean, HOW had I not put chocolate chips in my pancakes?  Maybe not the brightest crayon. These were delicious.  A little lighter than with … Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I was attending a bridal shower.  We had a few errands to run in the morning, but I figured we had plenty of time until the afternoon shower.  Until I remembered I had offered to … Read More

I’ve mentioned before that we have homemade pizza most Friday nights around here.  We tend to keep things pretty standard with either a basic tomato sauce or pesto.  We had some red bell peppers sitting around last week, though, so … Read More

We are the luckiest and have a fireplace in our place and maybe it’s our favorite thing about our place. It goes without saying that we eat a lot of s’mores around here. It took me a while but I … Read More

I can’t for the life of me find where now, but sometime in early December, I saw an image of a leather skirt.  With a sequin border.  And it was gorgeous.  And somewhere in the range of super pricey to … Read More