Another family vacation is in the books and this one included something amazing, SNOW!! A work trip for Eddie led to the idea of turning work into a fun winter vacation. We are almost to the realllly fun time of traveling with kids and want to make sure they get used to traveling because we […]

I’d like to dedicate this post to asking for help.  You hear it a lot now a days especially when you are expecting a baby, and honestly, it was one of the harder things about parenting that I had to learn, you can’t do it all by yourself.   For us, we have no family […]

Dearest Husband, Friend & Daddy, It’s been 5 years since I dedicated a blog post to you for your birthday! I couldn’t help but smile reading through that last post about how we had a “crazy year” that year. I think we can safely say that the last years of your 20s and the first […]

A year with Norah Gray, already it can’t be so! We have a hard time remembering life without you my sweet Norah bear.  You have always been a surge of perseverance, determination and joy with a splash of stubbornness and skepticism (it’s the dramatic eyebrows I think). While I know it is cliche to say, […]

    Once again I thought I had the “mother’s intuition” and I was convinced I’d never make it to 39 weeks. With how uncomfortable I felt, the random nights of contractions and pressure, oh so much pressure, I was unegotionalbly going to go weeks early ! Week 36, 1cm dilated and baby is “LOW” […]

Ah, the second kid, everyone warns you, “there’s nothing like your first”.  And to a large degree, that is so right.  If you are reading this and you are pregnant with your first baby, please please, take the time to savor it, the good and the bad, let people help you, obsess over nesting and […]

Our mini family getaway by the beach in Florida complete with finding shells and a family photo session….

Good friends don’t have to be told often…. “Thank You”…. but I’m going to say it anyways.   Thank you.  For what you ask?  For so much you’ve done that you probably didn’t even realize. Thank you for sticking with me in this crazy season of life.  I know you texted me 27 hours ago […]

One year ago I returned to work after 12 weeks of maternity leave.  I sat with Avery napping in my arms in tears and wrote this in my journal… “It’s my last day of maternity leave. It makes me tear up just to say the sentence out loud. There are a lot of feelings that […]

Pregnancy is amazing for sure… I was thankful I didn’t have any complications or issues, it was relatively drama free, but I was just not one of those people who ‘loved being pregnant’.  I really didn’t appreciate the ‘temporary’ part of it and recognize it as part of a journey until after, but I did have fun thinking back to some of the things that surprised me now that I’m looking back