James & Jax

Today is a BIG day here on the blog. I’m doing a happy dance because the fabulous Lauren Hale–who you may know from Twitter’s #ppdchat or from my praises of her over the years–is guest posting today! Please help me welcome Lauren. If you have cupcakes, confetti, or glitter, now’s the time to bust it [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the past–not in a creepy regretful way, but in a nostalgic way. I wish I could figure out what has set me off, why I spend so much time lately rehashing things, remembering people I haven’t thought about in years, playing out scenes from a decade ago (or [...]

I’ll let the photographs do most of the talking for me, since, afterall, it is “Wordless Wednesday.” But let me preface the photos with this: Spending a Saturday at the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware with my best friend Dacia, her husband, and my husband was one of the most fun things I’ve [...]

I have a strange, long, hopefully awesome weekend ahead of me. It’s a weekend I anticipate to be full of highs and potential lows. The fun actually began last night, when our friends from another state visited us with their two boys. Jax had a playdate, which seemed to have tired him out just the [...]

I spent a few minutes the other day jotting down a list of all the things I remember about 2011: I started out 2011 sick with something called tracheitis. Which shouldn’t have surprised me, having a toddler (aka a germ magnet). In mid-January, I wrote a post that generated over 10,000 page views in one [...]