Texas

I can post a #Christmas picture the day after New Years, right? Because that’s totally where I am right now. Months behind on the socials from my work hard/play hard life during which I was either glued to my computer working to launch our new plugin or being a total luddite ignoring my phone. I…

Happy first birthday to my little Vivienne. There was no themed birthday party considering the times we’re in, but that’s alright. Probably, if we’re being honest, for a baby, that’s preferable. No weird things messing up her routine, just a nice day at home with the family, fun crawling around outside in the leaves, and…

Adelaide is 3.5! I wish I could say she had an incredible day, but unfortunately she has a cold of some sort passed to her from one of her sisters. (Definitely a cold and not anything else; said sister had a negative COVID test last week.) So I don’t think she was feeling great most…

Addie and I walked through rows and rows of flags set up to honor our veterans at a park near our house Friday and I tried my best to explain military service and democracy in a way a three year old would understand. She did seem to recognize the somber nature of a field filled…

Just dropping by to share this photo of me and my hubby from when we voted early last week. The big girls were at school, the little two were with their nanny, and so we used our #civicduty as the perfect excuse to go on a date for the first time in 13+ months. Voting…

Halloween this year is not like any other, but we figured out how to make it work. Earlier today we did a socially distant drive-by trick or treating with @sangabrieluuf (where everything was preprepared by people we know from church and the goodies were out in the front yard waiting for the kids – no…

We spent the weekend camping out at Chris’ dad’s farm and the herb garden he’s growing on his deck is inspiring me to put more effort into our little patch. We had a decent garden going this spring but it got totally neglected in the middle of August when we failed to realize our sprinklers…

Perfect evening for a ride on her new bigger, 21-speed bicycle. ‍♀️ Nora’s needed a bigger bike for a while now and some very awesome grandparents sent her money for her birthday which she was able to combine with money we’ve paid her for “babysitting” her sisters to buy this beauty. It took embarrassingly long…

I have had the opportunity to speak personally with @joebiden twice. When we lived on Nantucket and he was Vice President, he would come every year for Thanksgiving and he always went to eat at Chris’ restaurant once during the trip. Chris has cooked for a good number of celebrities and political figures (even spent…

A rare #mirrorselfie with my mini me in honor of I finally stopped wearing maternity pants…you know, 11 months later. I’m not sure if it is the 4th baby or the whole having a baby at 34 thing, but I have a very stubborn 20 pounds of pregnancy weight that doesn’t want to go away.…

Sisters ♥️♥️♥️♥️ I grew up with all brothers. The only girl and oldest; I had 4 brothers close in age to me and then my mom and stepdad adopted two more boys when I was a freshman in college. I guess all that wishing for sisters resulted in 4 daughters. All the time when I…

I wish I could say there’s something exciting in the canning pot, but I’m just doing a little late-night boiling of diapers. These diapers are on baby four now and definitely were in need of a stripping – as was evidenced by all the soap bubbles in the pot – all of which came out…