It’s NOT the Thought That Counts
I Didn’t It’s the thought that counts. I’ve said that plenty of times in my lifetime. It’s probably because it makes me feel better about something I didn’t do. Quite frankly, it’s a cop out. I didn’t buy my mom a birthday present. I didn’t take my neighbors the cookies I made them. I didn’t […]
Ten Years In: A Look Back at Our First Wedding Anniversary Tradition
I’m not sure how it happened. It feels like it’s always been this way. But it also feels like it just happened. Somehow an entire decade of my life has been spent with Matt. Long ago was our first anniversary…and our fifth! Ten years ago this photo was taken. It was hot. And I mean […]
Handling Worry
I’m a worrier. I don’t know why. Maybe I was born with it (maybe it’s Maybelline…ha! I couldn’t resist). Maybe it’s a learned habit. Maybe it’s simply from reading and watching the news (which is filled with all the scary things of this world). No matter the reason, I worry. I worry what people will […]
No Excuses: Just Do It
Are you full of ideas?Is your Pinterest board filled with pins?Do you have a ‘want-to-do list’ a mile long? I do. I have so many ideas. But more than that, I have so many reasons NOT TO DO any of those ideas. It cost too much money.I don’t know where to begin.I don’t have the […]
A Letter to My Son: The Night Before He Becomes a Big Brother
Dear My Only Child of Four Years, I am sitting in bed right now thinking about you. Praying for you. Tomorrow morning you will wake up as an only child. Your world will look and feel the same. The same room. Same dinosaur covers. Same Paw Patrol fire truck that I keep tripping over. Same […]
Confessions of an (Almost) Second Time Mom
Being a first-time mommy brought plenty of fears. The number one: Will I be able to keep this child alive?! But being a second-time mommy is bringing a whole new crop of fears. Nothing that is surprising, though. There are so many articles about how to prepare for a second child and numerous blog posts […]
Slow Down…and Listen
December 13, 2018 Walkmans. Pagers. VHS. Car phones. Floppy discs. GameBoy. They’re all technologies of the past. They’ll never make a comeback and you’ll probably only ever see them in a museum…or in a box of your old stuff packed away in the basement. I never had a pager but I can remember having a […]
I Want My Mommy!
May 15, 2017 Warning: This is a REAL LIFE post. Moving 2,000 miles away is not without its struggles. Toddlers are little but they have lots of personalities…and constantly keep you guessing! I looked back at Liam this afternoon as we were driving down the road and just had an ‘oh wow’ moment. His legs […]
Are we moving? Are we not?
Whew! I am writing this now in the middle of baking FIVE CAKES. Well, kind of. As if I don’t have enough on my plate I took on the challenge of making Liam’s birthday cake. And I don’t mean a box cake in a cake pan covered in canned icing and littered with sprinkles. Oh […]
What’s that number?
34, 31, 33, 33, 32, 37, 37, 30, 21, 18 What are those numbers? Those are the HIGHS for the next ten days in Bozeman. Did you catch the last two numbers?! Is your heart racing a bit fast like mine when I saw those numbers? I bet I can make it beat faster. 24, 11, […]