Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
You guys know how much I love gift giving. Every year I make something tasty with my kids for my neighbor friends. Usually it’s cookies, because Christmas and cookies go together like Santa and his elves. This year, we skipped the chocolate chip standards and went with these tasty eggnog frosted gingerbread cookies that we started making last Christmas (click the recipe, you will NOT
In addition to being a blogger and writer, I own a photography business that I operate in and around the DC and Baltimore metro area where I live. I am insanely busy right now. Like barely sleep, work all day busy. Because family photos. I love that I have so many wonderful, devoted clients whose smiling faces I get to see each year at this
As made by me. Never mind that, in truth, I am not much into DIY projects. I wish I were. I secretly stalk all of these DIY and house design peeps on Instagram and pine over their home decor. And then I sit on my mini van couch and eat popcorn while I watch Heroes and wish I could be better. And, I have all
Ten point five days left until summer break. As with most things, I am the happy dancer in the above animation, and The Dudes are that other guy. I’ve just never been one of those moms who really dreaded summer break. I like sleeping in and I hate doing homework, so the 10 weeks of freedom provided by the summer are my high-knee-wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don’t-care happy place.
I’ve been working on making over my family room for weeks. The new couch I sold a kidney to buy finally came and, contrary to my normal behavior, I’ve really gotten into redoing the whole room. We don’t have a lot of rooms in our home that feel like mine. Every room just seems to be taken over by The Dudes, including my own. But,
Fall is officially upon us and if you’re me that means you’re excited because boots, jackets, really soft sweaters, seasonal coffee options only available at this time of year, and Halloween! Next to Christmas, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Just because it’s fun. There are no extended family expectations or overly done up dinners to prepare, just a fun way to enjoy an evening with
At the start of the summer, I found myself killing time at a foreign Wal-Mart. It wasn’t my sketchy hometown one, it was one of those sparkly new ones, with the wide aisles, and the baskets with four working wheels, and none of the mid century insane asylum lighting that so many of them seem to be outfitted with. I was strolling through calmly (none
Home caring for a child with strep throat and covered in flash flood producing rain, I did the only thing I could think of to do that made any kind of sense… ate chocolate in my bed with a book under the covers upgraded the Lego table! Meet Fintorp, my new bestie. Another of Ikea’s most amazing inventions added to our Lego adventure space, and
In celebration of Earth Day we’re bringing you some container gardening tips! In addition to planting an entire, soon-to-be-edible, container garden and weeding a quarter of the area where our in ground garden will reside (so much more to be done!), we (by we I basically mean me because I’m pretty sure my gardening sidekick spent some of this time dancing barefoot in the grass
