Back when we had two kids and we had just made our second cross country move to Washington state I wrote a piece about friendship after becoming a mom and moving. It was for a parenting website I used to write for that is sadly n…

My dad will be staying with us on Father's Day this year as my parents are helping us out during my carpal tunnel surgery. We already have a little collection of Father's Day flags that we use for my husband so I wanted t…

My kids have a couple more weeks of school but summer will be here before we know it. It feels like we are the last in the country to get out of school some years, but we do love our pacific northwest summers and will wait patien…

This is our family favorite chocolate ice cream recipe when I am in the mood to make some homemade. It is so yummy - rich and you can really taste the melted chocolate. It is an elevated version of an everyday ice cream favorit…