For Mother's Day this year we made simple beaded bracelets to gift to grandmas and myself. They were so simple to make but so sweet and beautiful. I really think it is all in the presentation so adhering the bracelets to note…

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…