After a marathon week at work that ended Saturday afternoon, I threw a bag into the backseat of my car and headed for the beach.  Cara‘s mom planned a “mother-daughter” weekend for herself and Cara and — now, prepare your little hearts for this — they asked me to come along.  On their mother-daughter weekend.  [...]

It’s nearly midnight and I’m propped up in bed, trying to wind down and go to sleep after a — get ready for it — nearly 17 hour work day today.  I’m tired and hungry which begs the following question: how can a girl be in charge of a dinner reception for 1,600 people and [...]

In exactly a week and one day, I will be donning a bridesmaid dress so that I can stand with one of my college girls, Dalphina, as she gets married. This, of course, provides us with the following two problems: 1. Since when did any of my college girls get old enough to marry? I [...]

It’s a quiet Wednesday night here in my little house!  All day today I’ve been thinking about how I wanted to come home tonight, turn on the Christmas tree lights, snuggle up on the couch and say a little hello to you.  And here I am, doing exactly that, with a lot of random thoughts [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s been over four months since I came home from my trip to Egypt, isn’t it? I was looking back through some posts the other day and realized that there were a couple more moments of the trip I wanted to tell you about that I never got around to mentioning. [...]

A local family recently asked me to do their Christmas pictures, so we headed to an old mill in town to try to get some “different” shots for this year’s Christmas card. I’ve never done a session there before but, after seeing the beautiful brick and broken glass, I’m absolutely in love with the place. [...]

I had the delight of having Avi this weekend, and I do mean delight.  I have her quite a bit these days, far more than you “see” on the blog (you have no idea how hard it is not to mention her each and every single day I have her!).  I feel like I’m getting [...]

(P.S. – Is there anything cuter on a wee little child than footie pajamas?  I THINK NOT.)

Last Friday, a mere week ago, I decided to brave the Black Friday crowds due to this: Trey, bless his darling little heart, didn’t get to go home for Thanksgiving this year because of his work schedule. I was already in bed when I called to wish him a Happy Thanksgiving and, as we talked, [...]

Don’t act like you weren’t expecting it to happen eventually. In fact, I’m a little disappointed that it took me this long.