I woke up to a whack across the face from a giraffe! Yep, that silly Sophie giraffe that apparently all the stars have, the one that Ty received as a gift, and I mistook for a dog toy, and somehow Bruiser got the same memo and always managed to find Sophie and run around the house with the poor animal …
Come on in…
One of the most intimate decisions I make is to invite people into our home. Our home is where we love one another well (and sometimes not-so-well), raise our boys, have the deepest heart-conversations, and the hardest fights. Home is where we can be ourselves at the core. I love entertaining and having people over. I love helping Bryan cook …
A Lil Spritz!!
Every once in a while I go into my bedroom upstairs and take alil spritz of perfume. My perfumes sit atop a sterling silver vintage plate that I found at a darling antique store inAtascadero, which I love for all my fabulous finds, but mostly the stores name, The Cottage. I have about 3 or 4 fragrances which are my …
Ode to Intentionality
I’m giddy! Beyond! Like I’m 5 and discovering Disneyland for the first time! My dear friend Annette came up yesterday to play, which really means we sat on the couch cupping warm drinks and talking in fast-forward, while our boys thoroughly enjoyed uprooting my freesia bulbs and covering themselves in black soil… and then the creativity began! Annette has an …
Blue
I’ve been blue. Not the fun, aqua-ish blue on my Anthropologie bedding. But deep in my gut blue. Lonely. And I’m not sure why. Probably because God is sifting through my heart and bringing parts of it to my attention. And it’s ugly. And I want to turn my head and ignore it. But it won’t go away. So I’m …
For the love of cookies
When I was in 8th grade, one of my childhood best friends came to live with our family the last half of the school year. She and I were inseparable- swimming for hours, harassing my brother and making way too many batches of cookies. Weekly, I think my poor mom opened the fridge only to find she never had butter …
Kids say the darnest things!
I am constantly entertained by my 2 year old, Tanner, also known as “T”- aren’t we efficient? 🙂 Not only is he a compulsive door closer, but he now loves to do laundry, thanks to my mom! Yep, he takes all his dirty clothes out of the hamper, carries them downstairs and informs me that it is “time to do …
I’m back!
It’s been a while, but I’m back to blogging. Not that I ever stopped blogging… in my head that is. It was getting my brain out on the computer that never happened! I recently asked a friend if they have invented something that connects one’s blogging thoughts directly to a blog, but apparently it has yet to be invented. Yet. …