Easter

On Sunday Mom hosted a big family dinner for Easter. I don't know that she was planning on hosting a big family dinner for Easter this year. But she invited…

Errata

We were video chatting with my sister Allison the other day and I made a joke about getting a kitten. She was fairly horrified that I would consider adding more…

Grandpa’s Light

This was a bittersweet holiday for me. It was our first Christmas with Lilian. But it was also our first Christmas without my Grandfather. Grandpa loved Christmas, and he and…

A Cozy Christmas

There's something about having a baby that makes Christmas seem extra important. I think it might have a little something to do with the fact that everyone and their mother…

Better!

Two recent developments that I'm pretty sure are going to make my life a whoooole lot easier: 1. I discovered a way to get digital copies of the newspaper archives…

Better?

When you call up your sister to wish her a happy birthday and she uses her phone call as an opportunity to talk about how worried she is about you...…

Back to Work

(Why, yes. I did flame out of NaBloPoMo last week. Whoops.) I went back to work last week after three months of maternity leave. I was expecting it to be…