This year, I gave my children something they have wanted for years upon years upon years. A halloween party. Now, I suffer from extreme party planning anxiety based on high, unrealistic expectations. So, I don’t throw parties. Two days before Halloween, when I realized I was completely unprepared, I decided to let go and just […]
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the pumpkin patch. or as I like to call it: the surface of the sun.
I have shared my love/hate relationship with the pumpkin patch before. You can read my account from a trip we took two years ago here. When my children were still babies. I have got nothing but love for the idea of the pumpkin patch. Trouble is, here in Southern California our Fall is not all […]
what might be our last friday-after-school-beach-trip until spring.
I love that I captured how she looks at me. (Taken while camera was hanging around my neck.) In both of these shots, there is the Anna smile that almost seems to be exploding out of her, and it’s all she can do to contain it inside. There is some kind of oreo cookie moustache […]