I love to make healthy-ish cookies (like this long-running recipe), but I rarely take the time. This holiday season I’ve been feeling the fever—we did holiday cards, for, er, Christ’s sake (also because when you have a baby you sign some sort of cosmic Christmas contract that compels you to send Christmas cards even if…
The days are short, the evenings are long. Wait—that’s not the phrase?! But that’s how I feel with a baby … there’s just never enough time to get everything done, and she’s the most important thing, so I just hang out with her and let the rest fall by the wayside. Including my gratitude lists…
There are only a few stories of me being purposefully spiteful. Buckle in: We’re on a girls trip in oh-ten. We’ve skied all day (I yard-saled, but that is quite literally another post), have opened the wine and ordered the food, settling in to enjoy a cozy night in our friend’s parents’ condo in Portland.…
It feels like every year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday blend into each other … and this year, they’re earlier than ever. One blogger called last week Pre-Game Friday. Are the deals now really as good as they will be on the Friday after Thanksgiving? Who knows. Is there a quieter/less spend-spend-spendy way to BF/CM?…
Here are a bunch of random things I am grateful for this week. I’m skipping the incredible MCT trip and Halloween, there will never be enough words to express my gratitude for that framily and not even food poisoning could stop us from having an incredible week together. I love y’all. Now onto the usual…
My Marriage Certificate Trio’s kid left a drawing for me on my desk after a long weekend visit. She’s 8, and creative, thoughtful, and kind. And sensitive. I’m sure it’s a pretty standard message for her age, but I was touched by her support of me … and the other meaning I found. Fello your…
I’m not a routine person – but I am. I am not a scheduled routine person, but I largely do the same things every day. This is changing. I have realized this both because I have very little routine except around the baby’s rhythms, and because within scheduled routine you gain free time, which I…
When he changes Sanne and she’s crying or fussing during it, my amazing husband always repeats “new diape, new you, new diape, new you, new diape, new you.” It’s hilarious and … true. Lots is written about changing perspective, but sometimes we forget how easy it is to change clothes or place or accessories and…
About 4 weeks in to paternity leave, my husband took a call from a recruiter. I was home, but he was in charge of the baby while I took a bath or stared aimlessly at my closet or something. The baby started crying, and this man said: “I’m sorry, that’s my newborn crying. I’ll call…
