Today is Nora's eleventh birthday. At times I feel like Nora's birthdays are celebrations, but also tiny losses. They're bittersweet moments to marvel at future possibilities and find joy in the past year's accomplishments, but also moments when I mourn the loss of tiny, sticky fingers reaching for my hand or slow, warm breath as she slept curled beneath the quilt on my bed. Over the years and months - sometimes over a single day - I watched Nora's babyhood melt away like an ice cream[...]
It has been 1 year, 9 months and 3 days since I last published a blog post on this website. At that time, we had just moved from Colorado to Texas and I thought that I was going to revive my blog. I wrote a handful for posts, but then life and[...]
This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale. In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, liv[...]
It's officially been a year since I arrived in Texas. When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to "flip" our[...]
The last time I published a post, it was about why we spontaneously decided to move to Texas. This week I thought it might be interesting to share HOW we made that cross-country move happen in almost no time at all. Deciding to Move in[...]
Chris and I have been married for 11 years. In those 11 years, we have lived in 5 states all across the country - one, twice. That means we've moved a lot. In fact, for every state we've lived in, we've lived in twice as many hou[...]
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for bot[...]
It's beginning to feel a lot like spring around here. As much as I think that I've enjoyed living places with 4 seasons, I'll admit that I've also been enjoying living in a place where tank tops and dresses are possible during late Februar[...]