Most mornings, I’m up as soon as I can be and trying to get some time in at work before my mommy gig starts. This morning I had 90 glorious minutes and was on a roll! I had one more order to finish up and pack so I could catch my breath, when little Finley… Continue reading Don’t Go To Work
I read somewhere that the best kind of therapy is beach therapy. I kinda needed that therapy today. We had a rough mid-day teenage bickering extravaganza and I was over it! So I took the babes, grabbed a starbucks, and drove to the beach. Laguna Beach is 15ish minutes from where we live and I… Continue reading Beach Therapy
I saw this quote months ago and haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I had been struggling with feeling overwhelmed and falling further and further behind in….well, EVERYTHING! When someone shared this it struck a nerve. I had been trying to pour from an empty cup for a long time and… Continue reading You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup
When I see them playing together, I wonder how much longer…how much longer until the baby on the left is too big and old and cool to play with the baby on the right. She’s turning 12 this summer and starting 7th grade. She goes to the mall with her friends and snap chats and… Continue reading How Much Longer
Somehow, there’s both no way you can prepare enough and no way you can prepare too much for motherhood. It’s some of the things you expect it will be with a million surprises thrown in. It’s exciting and tedious, funny and depressing, exhausting and exhilarating. It breaks your heart and makes you whole, brings out… Continue reading On motherhood…
The other day my hair was completely au natural. Long, curly, wild and red. I walked downstairs and Finley said “Mama! You’re Brave!”
We have two “sets” of kids. Our first set consists of our older four kiddos, born in less than a six year span during our first seven years of marriage. Our second set is what we all lovingly refer to as “the babies.” They are just over two years apart. In between those sets of… Continue reading Mind the Gap
Half a Dozen Arrows 