Hi. Hello. How are you? I am one million miles above the earth right now and orbiting The Great Beyond because Kristen Bell and I are practically BFFs.[note]A girl can dream.[/note][note]This entire experience was just freaking cool, okay? Let me have my moment.[/note] Earlier this year, I attended the Mom 2.0 Summit, an annual conference…
life is good
Deck the Halls
There’s something about the holiday season that just makes me happy. It’s weird. It’s like I can smell the cheer and good will in the air or something. Since the turkey has been properly respected, we dragged out our decorations yesterday and hunted down the perfect tree from the garden center at Lowe’s and trimmed…
The Kind Of Mom I Wish I Was
You know when your morning starts off on the wrong foot and you’re certain the entire day is shot because of it? That happened this morning. Joshua and Emma woke up at 6 and it was immediately clear that they had alllllllllllll the energy. (How do kids do that? How do they wake up going…
Down By The River
The kids and I took a little Labor Day road trip to visit my family down by the Georgia coast. Saturday we had a big family cookout. (So much food.) It was good to get away for a few days and see aunts and uncles and cousins we don’t see very often. It felt good…
31 letters 31 Weeks
In an attempt to feel sort of normal and get life closer to the track again, I sat down at our hand-me-down dining room table last Monday morning with a cup of coffee and a good pen to write and mail out 4 more letters for the #31letters31weeks “campaign.” I almost hate calling this a…