Hello! We have been busy lately celebrating birthdays – Emerson, Avery, and I all have birthdays a week apart, so October involves lots of celebrating, party planning, and cake! We celebrated Avery with a visit to the farm on her real birthday! She was getting over an ear infection and was a little grumpy all day, but by the time the party rolled around she felt better. I think she finally understood that the party was for her when we…
Man, I really feel like life has been happening to me lately rather than feeling any sense of control. I can’t keep up! I’m really looking forward to finishing up work and reclaiming my evening time again. Despite the chaos, we’ve been doing lots of fun things since getting our vaccines!! We’ve gone out to dinner three times and it’s amazing! Spending one-on-one time with Matt and having a break from cooking, cleaning, and bedtime is so essential for my…
We had a wonderful weekend of celebrations over here! Matt’s parents came down for the long weekend – we hadn’t seen them in 6 months! Emerson was on cloud nine and played with them non-stop for 3 straight days. Friday was Matt’s birthday, and I wanted to get away for a little date with him. He had the day off, so I surprised him with a picnic lunch in Freedom Park. Given that we’ve had two outings with out the…
Edited to add: If it was unclear at any point, my family and I are taking COVID very seriously, strictly following the four major preventative measures of good hygiene (e.g., thorough and regular hand washing), maintaining physical distancing, wearing masks in public when in situations where physical distancing could be compromised, and staying in our house. We have taken every precaution possible when receiving deliveries, and we are extremely careful when handling any sort of take-out. For these reasons, and…
We had a lazy [ok, most weekends are lazy, bc we can’t go anywhere] long weekend over here! Knowing we had a three day weekend was amazing and I felt like I was able to relax so much on Easter Sunday. We had nice weather on Saturday, and Matt took the girls out for a walk, so that I could have some time to myself to workout. It was fun to blast music for once! I’ve been resting a lot…
Matt and I had a wonderful time exploring Asheville this past weekend! I hadn’t been since Matt had an interview there in 2006 and boy has it changed. I had heard that the restaurants are really good, but was totally blown away by the food scene, especially because of the gluten free options! My parents watched Emerson for the weekend and we took Avery with us – traveling with a baby was no big deal compared to traveling with a…
Did Valentine’s Day turn into a sugar fest for anyone else? It was an exciting day over here because we got so many fun deliveries. My mom sent books and a craft. Matt’s mom sent Lion King stickers and glow in the dark bracelets. And then some of our neighbors dropped off treats, including a dozen frosted sugar cookies from Cheryl’s (some of them GF!). Emerson came home from school with all of her class Valentine’s and was so excited…
We made it home to Hillsborough for the holidays. It took us forever to get out the door, both because packing for two kids is a whole new ballgame and because Avery had an ear infection and we had to wait for the prescription. Luckily, the drive went smoothly! My mom babysat and we stopped by a high school friend’s Christmas party on Saturday night. Sunday was lazy but we did make it out for my first run in maybe…
‘Tis the week before Christmas! Anyone traveling anywhere really exciting? We had a great weekend with a few fun outings. Friday, I had a girls night with some friends at Sweet Spot studio for a cookie decorating class. The studio had a gluten free cookie option which was so thoughtful of them!!! The cookies were already cut and cooked, and we learned how to mix royal icing and then practiced different techniques on the cookies. We also brought wine and…