Generally speaking, I’m not a person who does *simple*. If there’s a “keep it simple” path and a “drive yourself and everyone around you nuts” path, I’m inevitably trailblazing the latter. Back in good ‘ol 2009, mere weeks before I discovered I was pregnant with Delilah, I had made the decision to freelance rather than day-job in order to support… Read more →
Category: Delilah
Cookie Doodle Birthday Partay!
I want you to know I think of you guys often. I’ll be going about life and I’ll think “oh, what a cute idea/nice moment/funny anecdote I’m experiencing. I should share this with my friends and lurkers who visit my blog. Hey Scott — take a picture!” But then I sit down to try and write a functional blog post… Read more →
Your Presence Is Our Present
Dudes, this mysterious work/life balance is hard. Last week it tipped on the life end of the scale for once and it felt really damn good. {Or, rather it felt really damn good the first part of the week until the work side of the scale got all overloaded and reality came crashing down. Still. Worth it.} {The only decent… Read more →
Father/Daughter Conversations
[That is the Lalaloopsy Crumbs Dress that Delilah got for her birthday. She is obsessed with it, only she thinks it is the dress Belle wore in Beauty And The Beast. Last night, outfitted in her new favorite frock, fancy shoes, and a gold purse, she announced she was going to the store. When she “returned” the following conversation took… Read more →
Living At The Speed Of Life
She turned three this week and I can hardly believe it. This morning, as I buckled her in for the ride to school, she announced: “Tomorrow me and Daddy are going to wash your car for you.” Is it any wonder I let her bathe herself in sugar this week? Sweet begets sweets, Sweets. Monday was her third birthday, but… Read more →
Level One: Complete
So I was too sweaty and anxious trying to get this tiny little queen of procrastinating dressed and in the car to get an actual picture of her heading off to school (she needed to shut every door in the house and arrange her favorite toys on the couch to wait for her to return before we could go) but… Read more →
Another Week in Instagrams
I can’t help it. I love iPhonetography! {Wanna follow me on Instagram?} Read more →
Oh Sweet Release of Silence (Apps for Kids)
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 →
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 →
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 →