Empty Inkwell

Change is good. Change is time consuming—big change, any­way. And change has rocked my world over the last five months. I’m still me, of course. But aside from the things that don’t really change—family, life­long friends, per­sonal val­ues, etc, a lot has changed. Cir­cum­stan­tially, lit­tle in my life is the same as it was the last […]

The talk­ing about, plan­ning and even­tual par­ty­ing is done and over with (way over)… so here she is. My lit­tle one year old at her first birth­day party. A thou­sand thank you’s to my friend, Kent, for tak­ing and edit­ing all these pic­tures for us. They are won­der­ful! By the end of the day, she was […]

First things first: slacker-of-the-year award goes to me. And the sad­dest part: the year just started. (Happy New Year, by the way.) I’ve taken pro­cras­ti­na­tion to a new level; I can’t believe it has been almost a month since I’ve typed a sin­gle word. That’s not to say I haven’t thought about it. I’ve had a ton of things I’ve intended […]

As we were brows­ing the fic­tion sec­tion, we let Cora get down to explore a lit­tle. (Just in case you are wondering-no we are not the kind of par­ents who let our kid get into any and every­thing. I payed close atten­tion so she didn’t grab and/or knock over a sin­gle book.) She was actu­ally really good-she walked […]

Decem­ber is a great month. Busy and a lit­tle chaotic at times: absolutely. But it is equally as awe­some. Christ­mas. Hol­i­day fun and fes­tiv­i­ties. Cora’s birth­day. And… my birth­day! It was a won­der­ful day. I slept in late, cud­dled with Cora. Matt brought her in to lay with me early this morn­ing, and I was actu­ally ready to get up […]

It is Thanks­giv­ing, and I am so excited to begin a new tra­di­tion with my grow­ing lit­tle fam­ily… a grat­i­tude jour­nal. A friend of mine, Jess, who blogs at Brix­ton Lane, shared the idea about a week ago on her blog, and I absolutely loved it. I didn’t have much time to throw one together (espe­cially since it’s not pos­si­ble for me […]

Last week­end, Matt, Cora and I went camp­ing with some friends of ours, Chris and Car­rie. We spent one night at a camp­site at Sil­ver­wood Lake (located in the San Bernardino Moun­tains, about forty miles west of Big Bear Lake—I didn’t know where it was either). As a kid—a Girl Scout, and the daugh­ter of a Cub Scout mom—I […]

Ok, I’m sure a lot of you out there are think­ing… she’s just now dis­cov­er­ing the won­der­ful world of Etsy?! And yes, it’s sadly true. I’ve heard of Etsy before, but have never taken the time to dive into all of its won­der­ful­ness until recently. My lit­tle dis­cov­ery (not really, I know… per­sonal dis­cov­ery may be more […]

Think about it: have you ever had a home-cooked Crock-Pot meal that wasn’t absolutely deli­cious? Okay, maybe that ques­tion is a lit­tle extreme. I mean, it’s not like I’ve kept a run­ning record or any­thing, but to my rec­ol­lec­tion, I’ve never had a bad Crock-Pot meal. And the great­est thing about Crock-Pot meals is that they are so easy! How […]

Cora has taken her love for “non-toys” from tag hunt­ing to a whole new level… I don’t know if it’s the excite­ment of get­ting into things that clearly aren’t meant for her, or if it’s sim­ply the draw of some­thing new, but Cora loves trash. Before your mind goes wild: I don’t mean nasty, already-in-the-trashcan trash. (What kind of […]