It’s just ten minutes, I tell myself, when trying to schedule an eye doctor appointment for my child. Ten minutes to find the number, wait on hold, check the calendar, update the insurance info, schedule the appointment. And then a half day out of the office to pick up at school, get there, dilate, wait, wait, wait, do the exam, get the prescription, go to the glasses place, order the glasses, and then another 45 minutes 3 weeks later to get the kid, go pick up and try on the

This weekend, we celebrated the upcoming nuptials of friends with a little party at our house - a chance to toast the bride and groom and get to know some of the people we’d be celebrating with during the wedding weekend in November. When I was the bride’s age, she was like 10 - and it would be SO AWKWARD to be hanging out with a tween when you are in your twenties. But now, we are both professional adult women. Now, t’s perfectly natural for use to be friends even though we

If summer *has* to end, at least it ends in the best possible way - fall. Football games! Tailgates! Firepits! Trick or treating! Hayrides! Pumpkin picking! Apple picking! Apple pies and pumpkin pies and ooking forward to a holiday pie from That Pie Girl (seriously THE ACTUAL BEST) and tailgates with warm cider and sunshine and fire pits with friends that help us not miss the pool quite so much. There are so many fun fall events and we are trying to get to them ALL because it

You served us well - perhaps too well, as no one in this house seems to be rested or ready for what lies ahead … namely fall. But between now, the unofficial start of fall, and the beginning of November when we fall back into darkness, we’ve got a lot of falling ahead to do. Falling ahead into firepit season and football season, into Halloween and pumpkin decor and all the things sandwiched between summer and Thanksgiving. For our family, we are heading into a season of high