THE JOURNAL

Sometimes, it just feels good to get away.  And there’s something liberating about last minute travel plans.  No time to run around like crazy making sure you have every necessity involved with traveling with two young children.   No time to get laundry done, get some groceries, clean the fridge out, etc.  We had everything […]

These are the walls that I wake up in, live in, raise my family in.  The world outside these walls can often be wild, rough, confusing, fun and everything in between.  I look at these walls every day.  When guests are over or I have clients here for a consult, I love watching them explore […]

After a few days off, I’m back.  And the past few days have been some of the toughest ones I’ve had to endure as I saw my husband gracefully accept his defeat in his re-election for Mayor.  I won’t go into all the details here, but I will say that I am a changed person […]

A personal post along with a few thoughts on this Election Tuesday.  As many of you know, my husband has been the Mayor of our city over the past 4 years and is up for re-election today.  It’s been a long, challenging journey for us personally.  I’ll share a little insight … My husband was […]

I’ll be out of my office today, spending this rainy Halloween with these two cuties!  All phone calls, e-mails and inquiries will be returned on Friday.  Hope your Halloween is full of ghost, goblins and mountains of treats!

Mornings are quiet around here now that Jillian is in school.  It’s just him and I.  I and him.  We do mostly the same thing each morning after Jillian and Daddy are gone for the day… we eat breakfast, then we watch and episode of Curious George, we play cars, then we get some laundry […]

I watch him in amazement.  He’s so mechanical like his dad, and loves to figure things out.  He’s really into trains right now.  And at only 14 months, rarely leaves home without one.  Cars, too.  He loves them all.  He drives them all around the house non-stop and all over the driveway and front walk. […]

So I whipped up this big fat blog post last weekend, published it and then poof!  It disappeared.  So I thought I should try to get it back up this afternoon.  But two weeks ago, our little man, Nash turned ONE.  I always have my kids’ birthdays on their actual birthday so it was a […]