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Blog posts tagged with Everyday Life

Disneyland In Photos

I surprised the kids with a trip to Disneyland for Spring Break. I'll share more of the details on all that another day, today I just want to share...

Knee Deep

I'm currently knee deep in the stuff of life. The fun stuff like prepping tax files for the accountant, scheduling doctor's appointments, attending...

Weekly Dinner Menu Planner PDF

One of the things I'm working on around here is getting into a consistent meal planning routine. I've made attempts in the past and it's ebbed and ...

Play By Play | Girl's Weekend

Simon asked to go spend some time with my parents at the coast so Anna and I had a whole weekend by ourselves. I'm actually pretty sure this was ou...

Around Here

Reading M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. Hearing Simon and Anna race back and forth upstairs from my office, down the hallway and into my be...

“Can we get a cat?” This has been a discussion around here for quite some time around here and you know the story of the reason why the answer has ...

Christmas Books

Before putting the Christmas books away until next year I had Katie type up a list of the books that were all wrapped up and opened one day at a ti...

The Evolution Of My Story

It's always been my goal to authentically share my story both in my scrapbooks and in this online space. To me that means addressing the good, the ...

AE | The Thanksgiving Lens

Just wanted to share a couple of my favorite photos from this past holiday weekend. I'm in the middle of putting my Project Life pages together for...

Thinking About Christmas

I've been doing a little holiday planning/shopping the last few weeks and wanted to share a few of the things I've found and ordered for the kids t...

These Three

My sister and I loaded the kids in the car and headed over to the beach to visit my parents for the weekend. I have lots of car trip memories as a ...

At Our House | Halloween

At our house one boy really wanted to create this drawing to hang on our front door to let everyone know there was a pirate here. At our house the ...

AE | The Weekend Lens

Just a couple photos from this weekend. We've got a full house of cousins and aunties and uncles and everyone is super excited about the Halloween ...

One of the things Paolo and I had fun focusing on in Italy were sounds. In this day and age there are so many opportunities to be a memory keeper o...

Italy In Photos

Beauty. History. Wine. Laughter. More laughter. Pasta. Old friends. New friends. Sunsets. Olives. Breezes. More wine. More laughter. And lots and l...

Taking It All In

Photo by Paolo Liloc. Finishing up our first week in Italy and feeling so very thankful for this experience. Thankful for the wonderfully kind, cre...

Fourth Grade Open House

Dear Simon, Last night you had your Fourth Grade Open House. Here's what I learned: 1. The technology in your classroom is so cool. You showed me h...

AE | The Weekend Lens

One of the things I've learned over the last 10 years, through all these adventures in memory keeping, is that my camera can be a refuge. This past...