Last week we traveled up north to experience the joys of our first real family vacation. I knew it wouldn’t be perfect, but I wasn’t expecting the baby to be teething for the majority of the trip or the amount of rain we got! On the bright side, the rain made for the most amazing [...]
Chloe turned 1 last weekend. I had some anxiety about meeting up with extended family because after I had Chloe I lost some of the weight, then came to a stand still, then turned some sort of curve and started gaining weight again. With birthdays I always think morbid thoughts, like how many more will [...]
Last week, the kids and I packed up the car and took a trip 45 miles east to visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. First we stopped in Waconia. What a beautiful little town! I sort of have a dream of living there now. The downtown sits up on a hill overlooking the gorgeous [...]
I have taken a small hiatus from blogging this week to immerse myself in my latest addiction Swap-bot! When I first heard of Swap-bot I thought it might be something for people into swap meets and that sort of thing. But really what I have found is that it is an amazing community for artists [...]
Illustration by Sydney Gray I haven’t been to see a movie in the theater in quite some time. It’s been at least a year, maybe two. The last movie I saw in the theater I think was Burn After Reading on opening day so it was a while ago. This past weekend, my parents offered [...]
