Two weekends ago I had the best weekend. I went to spend the night with my mom because my dad was out of town, which is like a mini vacation that I definitely don’t take often enough. We went shopping for baby clothes and spent Saturday morning talking on the back porch and then browsing…
Author: Erin
I made THE best cake this past weekend. Well, at least one of the best (but I suppose that’s debatable because I think my entire family would argue that chocolate stout cake is actually the best cake). And I’m not ready to share it yet (let’s be honest, typing up that citrus bread recipe kind…
I haven’t really read a lot of parenting books. Part of this is because I really don’t want to get into the wars of different opinions about feeding and sleeping and attachment, etc. etc.; part of this is because I studied child development in college; and part of this is because gosh there are so…
Somehow it manages to still be a wonder to me that I can cook meals now. Like, not just in the general sense of “Oh wow, I used to be a really bad cook,” but more recently in the more specific sense of a month and a half ago I could hardly manage to make…
January was so very tough, and one day, when I realized by late June/early July I wouldn’t particularly want to travel, planning a brief beach vacation for the spring helped to get me through a couple of days. And boy did it sneak up on us. Suddenly last week it was time to think about…