When I was a little girl, my grandmother lived with my Mother and I for a few years. She had the bedroom at the front of the house and I could remember waking up and peeking into her room each morning to see if she was awake. She always was. She was usually sitting up […]

Did I ever tell you about the summer that I spent out West? A group of us flew out to B.C., picked up a vehicle and spent the next thirteen weeks traveling across Western Canada.  We hit up some of the country’s biggest events and our only job was to have fun!  Our job was […]

Have I ever told you about the time that Steve and I endured a five hour thunderstorm out in a tent? It was almost a decade ago now and ten of us had met up for our annual summer camping trip. We pitched our tents…set up a dining area…brought board games galore…and then it rained. […]

Perfection and I aren’t very good friends.  I’ve chased after it for most of my life…and simply found it ever fleeting.  Constantly slipping between my fingers along with every thing else that I failed to notice in pursuit of the one thing that never really existed to begin with. Perfection is something you notice in […]

A number of years ago, when I was in New York City…I walked into this beautiful dress store.  Unlike everything else in Manhattan…he seemed especially small and quaint.  There was a gorgeous chandelier hanging from the center of the room and each wall had a simple white trim running along perfectly painted walls.  Bright windows […]

The week after we brought Hudson home from the hospital…it basically looked like a tornado had ripped through our home!  Diapers were strewn everywhere…presents, clothes and mail were piled in corners…and paper!  There was so much paper…everywhere.  Post-it notes recording eating schedules and Tylenol consumption…sheets of information from the hospital…to-do lists from here until the […]