Jeff and I took the kids to the Norton Simon Museum on New Year’s Eve.  LOVE that museum.  It’s relatively close to my house, it’s in a fun area of Pasadena,  and kids are free. It’s one place that we can go as a family and pay the same price as if Jeff and I [...]

I love the idea of sharing my life in list form, so when my good friend Nicole (and fellow Momo mommy) of Moments that Define Life created the meme Listable Life, I decided it was just the push I needed to try to share parts of my life in a form I don’t usually use. [...]

In early December I was shopping in my favorite used book store and hit upon a treasure-trove of LIFE magazines from the 1940′s, 1950′s, 1960′s and 1970′s.  They were filthy and many were really ratty, but I thumbed through them anyway.  I even bought a few but gave them away as Christmas gifts.  Now I [...]

Child number 3 turns 8 today. I still *think* he’s 4.  A super brilliant 4 that can read and play sports and show kindness to others.  But 4, none-the-less. I’ve got a problem this way.  I can’t wrap my mind around the rapid movement of time in regards to my children.   My #3 is [...]

Child #1 decided that she’d like to spend the day at the Balboa Fun Zone for her 12th Birthday, so off we went.  Such a good choice.  The weather was perfect, and everyone had a ton of fun except me {can we say sick, sick, sick?}.  It wasn’t so much that I didn’t have fun [...]

I’m all about repurposing spaces and items, so I can’t believe that it took me as long as it did to transform my junk closet into a crafting area.  For the first time in years all of my scrapbooking/stamping/crafting items are in one organized place, and it didn’t cost me a dime.  All it took [...]

My kids scored this Christmas.  I’m not just saying that because I’m jealous, either.  I’m pretty sure positive that even they’d agree.  They got a nice mix of items from their Christmas lists which really means that  they got everything they wanted. What’s not to love about that? They got new scooters and skateboards and stilts and [...]

Jeff set up a budget for our family the last quarter of 2011. It was the first time in our married lives that we’ve set out a clear budget and stuck to it. It’s actually been really wonderful. Now that 2012 is upon us, I’m more committed than ever to trying to stick to our [...]

Child number 1 turns 12 today. I’m in denial. Where did the time go? My #1 is such a blessing to me.  She came into my life seemingly two blinks of the eye ago and taught me about unconditional love.  She was the vehicle through which I learned to be a mother and for that [...]