I come to you today after my second lavender bath soak of the day. It was “spring forward,” otherwise widely known as a day of wailing and gnashing of teeth for all ye parents of small children. (I took lavender bath #2 and then purged photos on my hard drive and felt much better and […]
January 2015, you did not disappoint! In the first part of January I cleaned up Christmas and did January things, like handled some paperwork business that was leftover from our move in August. felt like a super hero for that. I felt it was a blog-worthy mention, anyways. The non-superhero part was me failing […]
If guess you’re normal people, you do reasonable things and deck your halls with boughs of holly. But if you’re me, you deck the halls with redwood greenery that you chopped off the bottom of some trees at your neighborhood park. There are a lot of redwoods in this town. I apologize in advance for […]
Thanksgiving is my favorite. In my childhood it’s affixed as that cozy day of warm-bread-y smells coming from the kitchen and ice clinking into my Grandma’s holiday glasses as my sister and I set the table. It’s that beautiful day where something in your brain switches over and starts telling you that it’s perfectly acceptable […]
Well, friends, this little Web Log of mine has been way overdue for an update! I grabbed the camera and took a few quick shots of life at our house today…sick kids, no make-up and this week’s plans put on hold. Now that’s real life. The style of this post is “pretend you came over […]
Man, I cannot resist a fall craft. Especially a good kindergarten-level project that is impossible to mess up and calls for items you can find in your back yard. I found some painted leaf garlands floating around Pinterest and after a jaunt (as I often do) in the park on Sunday afternoon I was inspired […]
A couple weekends ago I did a wonderful thing and took a day off from life to frolic in San Francisco’s foodie heaven (well, one of them anyways). On Sunday morning I got on a boat; just me, my camera and the crisp bay air. (And maybe other things. Like a cardigan, a Tide pen, […]
It’s been a really long time since I promised you guys this post about our small nursery for two. This nursery took me a ridiculous long time to put together. Part of that is due to our deciding not to find out the gender of our second baby until birth. (You can read about that […]
Thanks to the invention of venti lattes, I’ve finally come around to pulling out my camera to snap some photos of some of my spring projects. To date, my favorite DIY project of all time is Libby and K.K.’s mud pie kitchen! . I can’t think of anything my girls would rather do than […]
I finally got inspired to write Liberty’s birth story after watching the new film “Birth Story” about Ina May Gaskin and the modern midwifery movement. Birth is the most vulnerable and unpredictable event a woman will ever experience. Every woman’s story is precious and sacred. Despite what you hear, birth and postpartum do not have […]