our daughters (cousins!) jumping into a big cold lake Hi there. It's been a loooong long time since I've posted up here...  ...

The other night a small group of friends came over for a favorites party. Have you heard of these ? Everyone brings five of their favor...

Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life with Three Books, 1887 Only two weeks (!) of school to go for my kids. I'm starting to plot our s...

I've been a little obsessed with making paper flowers over the past couple of months. It is the perfect quick thing to do with your ...

(all photos, Monika Elena) If you have read this blog for any amount of time you might remember seeing the photography of my brilliant frien...

This week my 8 and 5 year old girls are grounded, for fighting. (They look so idyllic in these pictures.) But fight they do. So we are havin...

(such a concerned baby.) Bonjour friends! Since we last talked, my two year old has become so very... two . And even though this is my four...

A friend and I were laughing the other day about how it's kinda annoying to be bombarded so constantly with the message of "being p...

Hey there! So I've been seized once again by the January desire to dust off my old brain, dull from the comfortable routines of carpooli...

Hey! I hope you had a great Christmas. We had a lovely time, and now it's time to take down Christmas here, do a bit of cleaning and get...

I've only put out like 60% of our Christmas decorations this year, mainly because most of the time when I think about it, the garage see...

This December my goal is to worry a lot less about how Christmas looks, and more about how Christmas feels (I am so easily distracted by pre...