Last weekend our family traveled several hours west to spend a few days with friends near the Frio River.  I always love visiting that place....

There is a moment during childbirth where you no longer care what is happening in a room, who is staring or what they might think...

In so many sweet ways, motherhood has been a journey in simple living for me, one I’ve always craved and not always known quite how...

10 | What is your favorite part about Spring?  olive | I love that we can play outside again without blankets or coats! | I cried...

09 | If you could be any character in a book, who would you be? Why? olive | WonderWoman in the comic books because she’s...

Finding friendship as a mother can be challenging.  Our time is so often filled with taking care of our homes and children and work that...

week 08 | what do you love most about homeschooling? more specifically? olive | I love reading activities and playing dress-up. (That part about the reading...

07 | What do you hope to be when you grow up?   olive, 5 | I either want to be an artist, a dancer,...

There’s a large hole in the window screen just over our kitchen sink. Inside it, two tiny wrens are building their nest, their secret. All...

  olive | Last weekend, you asked me to buy you a Teen Vogue Magazine and these $1 earmuffs while we were running errands. Although you...