Empty Inkwell

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 […]

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 […]

1. We took Cora to the beach (well, the har­bor) on Mon­day. Our friends that we spent the hol­i­day with live in Point Loma about five min­utes (walk­ing) to the ocean. Matt and I aren’t huge beach peo­ple, so we haven’t been to the ocean ALL SUMMER! We walked down to the har­bor and let Cora […]

I left my house today at about 10:45 a.m. to run a few errands. It was hot! Really hot. The tem­per­a­ture in my car said ninety-two degrees, but it seemed hot­ter. Although to be hon­est, any­thing over eighty-five degrees, to me, is the same: too hot. (Except maybe if I’m at or in a pool, and am […]

I’m finally get­ting around to writ­ing about my (sort of) camp­ing trip to Lost Canyon! Kindy, Cora, and I had a great time! It was a six-hour drive to Williams, Ari­zona, where the camp was located, and the drive was Cora’s first There’s always a story when it comes to road trips… Here’s one from ours: We were on our […]

Part of my trip to Wash­ing­ton (and tech­ni­cally the main rea­son we decided to go) was to attend a wed­ding in Seat­tle. The bride and groom are friends of ours that live here in San Diego, but are both orig­i­nally from Seat­tle, so they had the wed­ding where the major­ity of their fam­ily and friends were. […]

Each year, as a part of my husband’s posi­tion as the assis­tant youth direc­tor for our church, he takes a group of high school kids to a Young Life sum­mer camp… as if he needed it to be in the job descrip­tion. Hon­estly, it’s a blast. Both the youth direc­tor and Matt (and me too!) were Young Life leaders […]

I took Cora to the library yes­ter­day. I know what you’re think­ing… here we go… another post about a “Cora first”. And technically—yes—it was Cora’s first trip to a library, so obvi­ously I took a zil­lion pic­tures as you’ll see below (what’s new?). But if I’m being hon­est… this post is more about me and my crazy book […]