Category Archives: holidays & seasons My daughter has decided her meals need to take foooooooorevvvvvvvvvverrrrrrr to consume. & I am bored. Problem is…if I get up from the table, she just stops eating & resumes her much more fun than eating activity. ::sigh:: So I have felt like a prisoner at the kitchen table for nearly three hours a day…sitting…watching…barking...  Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Mine was the best I’ve had in years. We spent the weeks before & after with our family, but the actual holiday was just the three of us. It was perfect. We established new traditions (Christmas Eve milkshakes + Christmas Lights tour & finished...  Christmas has always been my absolute favorite time of year. Add the wondrous eyes of a two year old and there is a whole new level of magic to the season. The simplest joys light her up. Santa…not so much. But twinkle lights elicit oohs-and ahhs from the back seat and plenty of “it’s so...  I have so much randomness I want to share floating through my head & I think that this is a perfect way to cover a bunch of the stuff I am loving right now! You know I always do a holiday gift recap, but I can’t do it until *after* Christmas, or I give away...  Today I am over on The Creative Mama talking about my Thanksgiving table & giving a few quick tips (& even a DIY) about how to sass yours up a bit! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! & this iPhone snap makes me smile big: Pin it  I don’t usually get up on a soap box, but with all this hoopla about Black Friday starting ON Thanksgiving this year, I’m getting increasingly irritated. & I feel like the holidays are losing their real meaning. I suppose I’ll credit this shift in my thinking to motherhood too–as I used to be a major...  I didn’t really plan ahead on this one. I should have taken some pictures of the final product last year–with my good camera–I promise to take some this year! BUT…I have some iphone snaps! I’ll post them below. We’ll also flash back a couple of years. I’m really bothered by the images I am going...  Yesterday I had two choices: (1) be the kind of mom who puts down the camera because her kid doesn’t look perfect (2) be the kind of mom who sees the beauty, despite the imperfections. & captures it just the way it is. I chose the latter. & now, we’ll remember… the good. the bad.... 
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