This is a story about my son’s first time tasting apple cider and my first trip down a 100-foot slide. And s’mores. There ain’t no party like a bonfire party. The township where we live has an active parks and recreation department, and it’s one of my favorite things about living where we do. (I’m pretty interested to sneak into… View Post
I love music for so many reasons. To lift a mood, to create a mood, to motivate, to soothe, to sing with, to dance to, to bring people together. To help put my baby to sleep. To calm him in the car. To entertain him when tensions run high. To set a tone for family fun. Our living room houses… View Post
People are always talking about how great newborns are, with the new-baby-head-smell and all that. To be honest, for the first three days of my son’s life I thought that the smell of his Pampers Swaddlers was his “new baby smell.” I was bewildered thinking why people raved about it. When I finally realized I had been smelling the diapers all along, I was… View Post
This is a chronological list about falling in love with my man, circa 2011. 1 Match.com, Really In August of 2011, I traveled for two weeks with three friends through five cities in Italy. (More on that later, I promise.) I turned 28 years old in a seaside town on the coast of Sicily. As I was blowing out my… View Post
If you’ve been around the internet lately, you might have noticed that there is no shortage of DIY recipes for beauty products you can make at home. For most of my life, I used beauty products purchased at stores, trying this and that, looking for the right fit at a reasonable cost. It was not until about a year ago that I… View Post