Empty Inkwell

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 […]

Matt and I spent most of our hol­i­day on Mon­day hang­ing with our friends, Bran­don and Lau­ren. After lunch, Lau­ren brought out these amaz­ing oat­meal, choco­late chip cook­ies out that she had made with her sis­ter the night before. She used a recipe that she and her sis­ter found on cookinglight.com. Yes, friends… that means these cookies […]

In a Nut­shell: Spend a lit­tle extra on one that will last. The Thought Process: There aren’t too many things I feel the need to go name brand on—very few things, if fact. But purses are def­i­nitely on that short list, and I’m not even a “purse” kind of girl. My closet isn’t full of hand­bags in multiple […]

Hello read­ers. I hope this post finds you all doing well and hav­ing won­der­ful days. My week has been crazy-busy with work, and time for hob­bies has (sadly) been lim­ited. I do have a lit­tle treat wait­ing for you all over at Sher­bet Blos­som, where Han­nah, a very cre­ative, busy lady blogs about daily activ­i­ties and inspi­ra­tions, recipes, and […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Yep… I’m still alive, read­ers. What can I say? The days have been pass­ing way too quickly! Just a few days after I returned from Lost Canyon, my hus­band, Cora and I got on a plane and flew up to Wash­ing­ton State to visit my par­ents and sis­ters for a few days, and to attend a wed­ding in Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton. We just […]