Two Thousand Twenty: The Highlights

Over the past several years of blogging, I’ve established a year-end tradition of reflecting on the previous calendar year with a post commemorating the year’s highlights and favorites. Though 2020 was far ...

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Tried & True Series: (More) Baby Items We Love

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my time as a parent, it’s that kids come with a LOT of stuff. Even when you attempt to take a more minimal approach, as ...

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Five Things Saving My Life This Winter

Winter is my fourth favorite season. Even in years when the weather is fairly mild (as it has been in Austin this year), the dark nights, barren trees, and cloudy days can ...

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Two Thousand Nineteen: The Highlights

This year was indeed one for the books. Last January, I never could have dreamed all that the next twelve months would hold, and my mind and emotions are still trying to ...

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Lately // December 2019

I know I’m not alone in my mixed feelings about the month of December: it’s chaotic and stressful, but also the most wonderful time of the year! This year, baby obligations mandated ...

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2019 Reading Recap and My Favorite Books of the Year

December is my favorite time of year—not just because I adore Christmas, but also because it’s a month chock-full of recaps, reflections, and Best Of lists. I enjoy seeing these sorts of ...

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Lately // November 2019

November has always felt like a very transitional month: it comes on the heels of Halloween, and by its end we have moved beyond fall and are fully immersed in the Christmas ...

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Holiday Gift Inspiration: Tried and True Edition

Compiling holiday gift guides for this space has been an annual tradition for me since 2014, and for the past four Christmases I’ve enjoyed sharing want/need/wear/read gift guides based on our own ...

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Tried and True Series: Infant Twin Essentials

I’ve had so much fun this year sharing some of our family’s favorite items. It’s fitting, I think, that we are rounding out this series with items related to the defining members ...

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Lately // October 2019

We survived the month of October, and what a month it has been! It’s hard to believe that when I posted my last monthly update, I was still very pregnant and counting ...

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