In typical us fashion, we planned our big winter family vacation to the Midwest at the last possible minute. Oh wait, did I just call it a vacation? LOLOLOL Ooooops. I mean family trip. We planned our big winter family trip to the Midwest… With Christmas break upon us, and dreams of relaxation and a…
You already know I went on a girls’ trip for my 40th birthday, but you don’t know what I packed in my carry-on. As always, I waited until the last minute to get my packing done, and let the anxiety build up high and tight before the outfits just came to me. Once they finally…
Well ok, the birthday celebrations are winding down now, so they won’t go on forever. But I’ve had a pretty darn amazing couple of weeks, dragging it out as long as possible. Now listen… when I turned 30, I remember feeling so disappointed about my birthday and lack of a big, wild celebration. I think…
We’ve been back from Walt Disney World for a month now, and I still can’t believe it happened! It was one of those trips where I was glad to get home by the end, but not all that anxious to actually get back in the swing of things. Last week I continued to eat like I…
N’awlins, NOLA, The Big Easy, The Birthplace of Jazz. Good ol’ New Orleans, Louisiana. Or as Stevie would call it “No Ortans”. It was several months ago that I was perusing the web, just typing in random cities and checking flight prices (does anyone else do that??) I can’t remember why New Orleans popped into…
Oh hey guys! Long time, no see — as usual. It’s like that in real life over here too. Everyone we see, it’s like OMG It’s been too long! Let’s not let so much time go by before we get together next. But it always does. You know how it is. Anyhoo, since Stevie is…
Stevie has sort of a reputation with museums. They sound so good and fun in theory, but usually end up in an embarrassing disaster. By the time Stevie was 5, we’d been to almost every museum in Los Angeles (and dragged out of almost every museum in Los Angeles). And it was about that same…
Welp. Summer break is over. I am obviously relieved that Stevie will be getting back to his regularly scheduled programming, but I’m also kinda… flabbergasted, I guess? I mean, it just went by so fast. I don’t know how much you can even consider summer break to be a break when you have summer school…
We survived another holiday! That’s not to say that Stevie wasn’t still in FULL ON Easter-mode when he woke up this morning. At 6:30 he had sweets on the brain, and certainly hadn’t forgotten the lollipop we promised him “later”. His favorite game as of late is to watch me put Hot Wheels into Easter eggs…
When Paul and I sat down to plan our family vacation, I was prepped and ready to make my case for Hawaii. Hawaii all the way baby! Dream vacation coming up! Paul, trust me! It will be perfect. I have the resort picked, the kid can go to the day camp, we can drink and…