The birth story of my family blog goes something like this:
Conceived by my husband and begun as a chronicle of our time living in Hawaii and Seattle
Used to announce we were pregnant with baby number one (Jack)
Abandoned for a...
My 12 year old daughter, Lora, is anxiously counting down the last days of the school year.
So is her dad, the school teacher.
And so am I.
It’s not just that we are all looking forward to the time off, to...
Ask any of my friends, and they'll agree. I have a somewhat obsessive personality. Once I get into something, I tend to really get into it. Whether it's a favorite band, beloved actor (I was probably the only 17...
I can't believe summer is right around the corner...it definitely seems have snuck up on me this year! Stella's first birthday is less than six weeks away, and now that she is really starting to connect the dots and...
VBS = Vacation Bible School
For some of you, this may conjure up images of a 1980's summer. Shorts, a t-shirt, permed hair, and running into church with a handful of coins for the offering plate. (Or this may just...
As native New Orleanians, my husband and I are proud to call NOLA home once again. For "school" I went to Mount Carmel Academy and even completed my degree in architecture in New Orleans, at The School of Architecture,...
Longue Vue House and Gardens is a hidden treasure located just off of Metairie Road. If you didn’t go there on a field trip in grammar school, I would bet many locals have not been there. The facility itself...
In early March, Mark left to go out of town for drill with the Louisiana Air National Guard. Jane was just turning 15 months old, and she was showing signs of what I was certain was her fourth ear infection in...
For nearly every gift-giving holiday and birthday, Scott asks me the classic question: "What do you want for (insert occasion here)?"
Almost every time I answer the same. "Whatever. Be Creative." Which, honestly, is stupid on my part because, as...
Balloons, bunting banners, and buffet tent cards: just a few of my favorite birthday party essentials. No detail too small when planning the perfect birthday party! Am I the only one that stresses over having every detail just right?...
I’ll admit it…as soon as we found out we were expecting a baby girl, I went a little overboard in the shopping department. As a first time mommy to be, little did I know that as newborns, babies pretty...
One of my graduate school professors was an existentialist. It was a master’s program in psychology and, although the class focused on personality psychology, his existentialist-leaning lectures often touched on deeper meanings, self-actualization and, ultimately, the transcending of the...
Most people think that once your NICU preemie is home from the hospital things just magically become "normal." They forget that your baby was born weeks or months early and that mom, dad and baby have a lot of...
Getting your child to eat is one battle, but getting your child to eat healthily is another one that moms in NOLA are fighting daily. There are several challenges that we experience from what to cook, where to buy...