A couple weeks ago, at Luca’s soccer game, a kid got hit right in the face with the ball. Luca’s teammate Owen was sitting near me on the sidelines, and I said to him, “Oh man, that happened to me once when I was a kid.” Owen, genuine concern in…

It’s my first time writing under a new domain, so hey hi hello! A couple recent highlights: Me: Everybody ready to go?Sawyer: WAIT Mom! Big Fat’s not ready!!Me: What?Sawyer: Big. Fat. Is. Not. Ready.Me: ……who is Big Fat??Sawyer, tossing his eyes to the ceiling: DAD is Big Fat, Mom. Since…

Recently, I told Ben we needed a big table for the kids’ play/school space – something we can use for art projects, school lessons, jigsaw puzzles, etc. I had my eye on this little number, but Ben would only agree to a new table if it was hexagonal, so we…

Sawyer’s absolute favorite thing to do is build Lego creations. I’ve been trying hard to spend more quality time with just him lately, so that means I’ve ended up frequently sitting beside him, building a lot of Lego thingamajigs of my own. Yesterday, I built a Lego bookshop, complete with…

There are many, many moments in my life lately where I’m overcome by emotion, looking at my baby girl, and I think to myself, “If only I had known. During that incredibly tumultuous pregnancy, during that lonely, anxiety-filled first year of her life. If only I had known the person…

We met some new friends in the kids’ book club Luca and I started a few months ago, and they invited us over to their house for a play date last week. The mom warned us before entering, “My house is a DISASTER,” and in my head I thought, “Is…

Ben and I were talking the other day about our goals for the next six months, and he suggested one of mine should be to “publish two to three blog posts”. I SCOFFED and said, “Two or three posts in the next SIX months?! Surely I will be able to…

When it’s been months since I’ve written something, it’s always hard to know where to start. Not like anything monumental has happened around here, but it’s all the little updates that I’d LOVE to have the time to share that I simply don’t. The other day, Luca asked me why…

I was laminating moon phase cards for kindergarten this morning while watching Parks and Rec, my go-to for mindless background entertainment while I’m doing something else. I can currently hear normally only out of my left ear, while the right sounds like I’m under water. Every noise I hear is…

Hi friends! I have literally one free hour in front of me, and rather than do chores that no one will even notice, I’m coming in hot with some more random updates and photos. 🙂 Here we go! First, if you have kids of any age and are on the…