Empty Inkwell

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

No, Cora isn’t crawl­ing just yet. (She is super close, though—for all you par­ents, she’s in the rock­ing on hands and knees stage—every time I say that to some­one with kids, they nod and/or fin­ish my sen­tence for me—I’m guess­ing it’s the stan­dard prime-for-crawling motion.) But, she is com­pletely mobile. She rolls over and over and […]

Noth­ing beats it. I can’t think of any way I’d rather spend my time than laugh­ing and hav­ing a good time with peo­ple that I love… espe­cially fam­ily. My trip to Wash­ing­ton was full of those per­fect moments, not only for me, but for Cora and her cousins, too! Cora is devel­op­ing such a per­son­al­ity, and is now laughing […]

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 […]

About a month ago, Cora offi­cially entered the fight-sleep-‘til-you-crash stage. If she could talk, I’m sure I’d be hear­ing, “but I’m not tired, mommy” on a daily basis—multiple times per day, if we’re count­ing. I can remem­ber say­ing those words so often as a lit­tle girl… why is it that kids fight bed­time so hard? If they could […]

Today was an amaz­ing day! After church, Matt, Cora and I met up with my brother, Jonathan, and his fam­ily, and brother, Jamin, and his girl­friend. We ate lunch at Pan­era Bread (so yummy!) and then wan­dered into a toy store that was just across the walk­way from the restau­rant… Geppetto’s. Geppetto’s is a small toy store, but is […]