This is your month my sweet and passionate Elysse. In 17 days you will enter the world of double digits. 🥹 I was brought back to this photo this morning and it brought such a wave of emotions. I managed to capture this photo a mere seconds before you walked on stage to perform your… Continue reading Step forward
2024 taught me that in life, no matter what year it is, we will make plans and many times those plans will not go the way we wanted and we will make mistakes. We will also disappoint people. 2024 was full of really beautiful moments and really hard ones, and as it comes to a… Continue reading 2024, before moving ahead
My emotions and my heart are all over the place tonight. I was reflecting on the past year and I suddenly just burst into tears, and the worst part is I feel guilty for having these moments. Because I know, trust me I know, that in the larger scope of things, everyone reading this and… Continue reading My 4th man in the fire, time after time
I’m a little bit torn and sending out a call to this vast blogging world for any kind of suggestions. I can’t believe it’s been 14 years since I started this blog. At the time I wasn’t even pregnant with our first girl, I had just been married for a little over a year and… Continue reading Where am I going?
Sometimes I fall into this dark head space and I feel like I just turn numb inside. It feels like I stop caring and it feels scary to me. It feels scary because I am someone who feels deeply. I genuinely care about people and their well being, and what they may feel or think.… Continue reading Dark spaces
Hello readers! Back to writing as our typically sunny Southern CA experiences their first Tropical Storm since…awhile. I read somewhere that it’s been 80 years since a storm of this magnitude was headed our way? Not sure how accurate that is because I’m grabbing this info from a friend in my bookclub text chat. So… Continue reading Rainy day schedule and bookclubs
Today I stayed home from work because I’m sick and resting from a respiratory infection and possible pneumonia. As I finally willed myself to get out of the dark bedroom, I walked around our quiet house. Both my girls were at my parents house because their Spring break just started today, and my husband is… Continue reading Ready to begin again
It’s funny how from one instant to the next your emotions and feelings can switch so quickly. This morning started relatively well. By the time both my girls were awake I realized that my oldest was a little bit sour, which is incredibly uncommon. She’s the one that 9 times out of 10 wakes up… Continue reading Feelings are not in control
November and December always tend to feel like a blur of celebrations and days to get through. The start of the Fall and the months leading to Christmas and New Years are always a busy time for the hubby and he tends to get force hired at work a lot. I was almost certain he… Continue reading It’s the little moments
Purse Meets Diaper Bag 