I’m not extremely political and neither is this blog. One thing I love, though, is watching history unfold. Documentaries, national news, biographies … it’s all extremely interesting and calming for me. There isn’t much that will convince me to turn on the TV during the day, but this week was President Obama’s Second Inauguration — […]

Welcome back, friends. 🙂 Gracey is gettin’ a little stir crazy! I’m looking forward to April (maybe March??) when I can take Gracey outside for walks and playtime. But while the temps are in the single digits, we’ll stick to laps around the house in her push car and … jumping on the bed! She […]

Oh gosh. This girl is the end of me. THE. END. Goodbye to all the preconceived correct and incorrect judgments I made about having children. (Most of them were incorrect.) Hello to my heart and soul walking around outside my body — the good, the bad, the difficulties and the joys. This child is strong, […]

OK, so she’s not exactly 11.9 months old, but that’s how I’ve been feelings these days … secretly hanging on to every single second of this last month in her first year. Our baby girl. Last year at this time, Tommy and I hardly decorated for Christmas. We got a mini Charlie Brown Christmas tree […]

Happy Day After Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day filled with delicious food and lots of love from those who mean most. 🙂 Yesterday, Gracey decided to start her day approximately five hours before the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade began — this girl is the earliest of birds. It’s easy for me […]

Baby alert: If you don’t want to check out a pic of my baby in a tub, move along … nothing to see here. 🙂 I just had to. I had to take a pic of her in the tub. She’ll forgive me eventually. It’s one of the happiest things we do at the end […]