It’s like a whole new world has opened up before my eyes. I’ve been totally down for iPhone apps that I can give Delilah in case of emergency (where emergency = me needing to take a work call or get my eyebrows waxed) but it had just never really occurred to me for my iPad to act as an activity… Read more →
Author: Morgan
I Had Big Plans To Post Today…
But then I also had big plans to start this: Which is HARD. I mean awesome, but HARD. I passed out on the couch the second Scott walked in from work. Mostly from the sugar withdrawal headache. Because MAN I have GOT to stop eating all of Dee’s fruit snacks. But any way, now that I’m up from my nap… Read more →
All That Glitters
{Click photo for info.} My love of sequins has never waned. From our early courtship in the early 80s through our tumultuous relationship today, I can’t stop coveting everything shiny. Just like Dee. I wish Sparklecorn was every day. Or that I had some other excuse to wear this. These ::drool:: “mermaid pants” also come in white. I also wore… Read more →
Family Road Trip: Knott’s Berry Farm (Which isn’t a farm, at all.)
One of the best things about having a toddler is that we’re able to go off on little adventures together. Recently, we got to take Miss Dee to Knott’s Berry Farm. Which, instead of rows of berries, it is now populated with lines of people, waiting to get on their ever-growing collection of thrilling rides (I remember going there with… Read more →
Soul: Crushed
{via the talented teddy smith} Recently, I went for it and got the mom-cut I’ve been threatening to get since I squeezed this baby out nearly three years ago. Except I like to think of it as a chic Michelle Williams modified pixie, rather than then stodgy valley soccer mom look that was so popular during my 1980s youth. I… Read more →
Gonna Ride (Ri-i-i-ide) The Dinosaur Train
When I was a kid, my Mom was like Mrs. Museum. We’d crack jokes about her penchant for the tedious and I was always (at least outwardly) annoyed about it at the time, but in retrospect we got to see a lot of cool stuff. I have pretty fond memories of the Museum of Natural History (and the attached air… Read more →
Today’s Menu: Mush of Mind
Sometimes my brain just wants to take a vacation. Like, no matter how hard I try I can’t focus or organize, or read, or write until I let my poor little overworked head-guts take their leave of reality for a bit. Some of you might be thinking: Uh…Didn’t you just get back from New York? And you’re right. I totally… Read more →
Welcome To The Gunn Show
{If you follow me on Instagram, sorry that you’re kind of getting this story twice. Please accept this awesome musical mash-up as my apology. But she just.kept.going.on about the costume.} Yesterday evening, Delilah suddenly stopped what she was doing, eyes nearly bugging out of her head as she remembered she had been saving something for DAYS that she’d wanted to… Read more →
A Life Well Lived
I’ve only officially been a Shanahan for about five years, but I was eighteen when Grandpa Dick and the beautiful Masumi first welcomed me in to their home, and their family. Scott’s Grandfather led an incredible life, and has left behind the kind of indelible legacy that will live on in our family for generations to come. He passed away… Read more →
“Doc, Are You Telling Me This Sucker’s Nuclear?”
[This post was originally published on an anonymous blog long ago and far away, and then later re-published on Toy With Me and even on BlogHer, but never, ever here on my personal website where people who know me could read it. Until now. I’ve been desensitized by the fact that I stepped up and claimed my once anonymous post… Read more →