just after the dust settled from hosting easter in north carolina, we packed up and made our way north to spend spring break in beautiful, sunny, western new york. i used the road trip time to finish reading “the anxious generation” by jonathan haidt and it’s a must read for any parent navigating screens and […]
ruby
march stuff. (mostly easter themed).
and now, for my march wrap up. hazel continued her taekwondo journey. she loved it. and loved master c. as the weather got nicer, i began walking at the park more frequently. not sure why i felt the need to document this, but march pics are sort of lean so this is what my content […]
a quilt for my college roomie
for the last 15-ish years, my college roommate and basketball teammate and her family have lived just down the road in greensboro. you would think this would mean we got together all the time, but alas, sadly, we didn’t make the most of this opportunity. then. her husband got his dream job, in nyc, and […]
febroorary. 2o24.
i literally can barely remember the happenings of last february. some of these pictures aren’t even really jogging my memory. but, i’ll muddle through, in the name of family memory keeping. here we go. ruby’s birthday is february 3rd. or so we are told. anna made her some pupcakes to celebrate her fifth birhday. she […]
hanging rock hike & failed photoshoot.
somehow, on a slightly less cold february saturday, i talked anna into going on a hike with me. ruby requires no coercion, just a mention of a car ride and there’s no shaking her. we opted for moore’s knob, which is probably my favorite hike in the park at this point. we usually opt to […]
january of 2024
lets see here. apparently kicked off 2024 with a photoshoot with the christmas tree at derek’s parents house. i do not recall this happening, but the pics don’t lie. we took the kids to a carolina thunderbirds hockey game. it was fun. cold. but fun. the score was like 15-4 or some nonsense. we spent […]
december hap-hap-happenings.
now here is the part where i try to remember all the little moments from last december. the day to day stuff. when it wasn’t actual christmas or hazel’s birthday or cookie baking mayhem. let’s seeeeee. i always love the first few mornings after the tree is up and i have my coffee in the […]
christmassy. twenty twenty three.
we waited until christmas eve to do gingerbread houses in 2023. not sure why. i assume time just got away from me. but it made for a lovely christmas eve activity. messy. sugary. but lovely. i premade the houses with graham crackers, added a sugar cone tree, bought a million decor items, and we got […]
a whole lot of november things.
in order to keep this post manageable, i had to write a lot of separate smaller posts about november happenings, but it’s still a big one. and even though as i write it, it’s only 12 days into december, all of these memories feel like they were months and months ago. so much stuff crammed […]
go bills. pillow version.
a few years back, i decided to try my hand at foundation paper piecing pattern drafting. of course, since it was in the middle of a successful football season, trying to create a fabric version of the bills logo was the only logical choice. except that it wasn’t. at least maybe not for my first […]