This week was a very big week for my not-s0-little girl. She lost her first tooth. She got to spot the tooth fairy scaling our bannister and was able to follow the trail of fairydust that she had left behind in our backyard. (When she woke up and I showed her the "photo that I had captured" she asked, ...
I remember when I wrote this post -- about the autumn leaves crunching under my feet and the smell of firewood in the air. I remember it so vividly, yet it was over six years ago, when my daughter was not even six months old. She was just starting to speak, as she was an incredibly early (and eager) ...
I wanted a grand entryway... As someone who is obsessed with interior design and home decorating, I love being a Wayfair Homemaker (click here to read my previous Wayfair posts). In the past year, I have used Wayfair to decorate two homes of my own, one carriage house for a friend and purchased more gifts than I can count. When ...
I am a writer; a blogger. I write on this site, I am writing a book, I write notes in my kids' lunch boxes each day. Sometimes, my posts are long with lessons; sometimes they are my way of chronicling life in the moment; sometimes my posts are photos and other times they are haikus. Today my post ...
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her..." -Pablo Neruda *** Tomorrow, it will be one week. One week since I got a call from a ...
My son and daughter are best friends. I thought about trying to link to all of the posts that chronicle their journey together, but there are oh so many. When I found out that I was pregnant with my second child, I was so excited at the notion of a sibling for my girl. At that point I was ...
(not to be confused with A-list.) I have written many times before about my love for the lifestyle/style/parenting/food/entertaining/everything blog called Ramshackle Glam . In many ways, I think that RG was my first real experience with the blog world. Jordan, owner and writer of the site, went from someone whose life I watched from afar to a woman whom ...
Dear Son, In thinking of this post I will be honest in that I couldn't shake the feeling that I had written you a letter like this before on this very site. That there was another post called "Dear Son" and my search just now confirmed my suspicions; almost two years ago I wrote you a ...
It all started with a Facebook post. Well, technically, it all started back in February when my dad called to tell me that there was a house for sale on the street on which he grew up. I did not need much encouragement to take a look at the grand looking house, built in 1924, that from ...
I had a conversation with a friend yesterday, and we both admitted to being overwhelmed. We talked about never having enough time, often feeling “less than” and, the hardest woe with which to cope, guilt. It is so much easier to see problems and solutions from the outside. For example, as my friend and I spoke, I ...
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