As I mentioned in a post last week, we’re currently looking in earnest to buy a house. It’s fairly daunting around in Silicon Valley…we put in our first offer this week. THERE WERE 50 OTHER OFFERS ON THE SAME HOUSE. I don’t even know how to process this… Anyhoo, since we’re moving, I haven’t been tackling any decor projects in our current… View Post
If you’re like me, you always wait until the last minute to get gifts for pretty much any major holiday (well, except Christmas, I’m a little better with that one). It’s not like I don’t know it’s coming! It’s the same day on the calendar. Every year. But, here we are, less than a week away from Valentine’s Day, so… View Post
When the boys were little, people would tell me to “cherish these days” because they go by so fast and parenting becomes harder as they get older. Of course, parenting little ones is HARD, so I found myself wanting to punch those well-meaning people in the face. I was sleep deprived, I had dried spit up all over my clothes,… View Post
What’s everyone up to this weekend? We’re pretty busy with a birthday party, hitting up some open houses 🙄, working with the toddler class at church, and having some friends over the watch the Super Bowl. I’m looking forward to all of it (except for the open houses, unless, of course, we end up buying a house. Then, it will… View Post
There’s something about routine that keeps all of us going and feeling productive, organized and healthy. One part of my routine that wasn’t making me feel that way was making dinner every. single. day. Same routine, different day, always a chore. Always scrambling. The hours between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. are always crunch time in our house. That’s the time when… View Post
Seth works at Apple. His job is the whole reason we made the move from Cincinnati to Silicon Valley two years ago. The Christmas before we headed west, I gave him Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. I thought it would be good for Seth to get to know the person who built the company we were uprooting our lives for…. View Post