I love this kid. He is so … fun! Crazy! Loud! Granted it’s not all sunshine and roses. He can throw hellacious fits. He is stubborn beyond all reason and those lungs … they are impressive. But just a couple months into his third year, he is still very happy to snuggle while he drinks [...]
I was introduced yesterday to the concept of ReMent. Are you in the know? ReMent refers to tiny, quite detailed miniatures made by the Japanese company, Re-Ment Ltd. and now others. They started out with food and indeed, most of the offerings still are food or related to food but it’s expanded somewhat. I also [...]
We’ve now lived in our little house for almost 7 years. I must say I really really love our house. But as much as I love it, it is not 100% perfect and Matt and I have always wanted to build our own house at some point in the semi-distant future. With the housing market [...]
Well you know from yesterday what went into getting away from the weekend, but I shared nothing about the weekend itself. It was fabulous to say the least. My mom’s brother and his family recently built a new vacation home in the mountains about 1.5-2 hours away from Denver. They had all of us (my [...]
Fridays are my “day off” … day off from office work that is. I had an extremely busy yet pretty typical day on Friday and I wanted to write it down for posterity’s sake something, perhaps, to show the kids when they are parents of young children. 6 AM – Wake up and hop right [...]
I meant to post yesterday, but somehow I blinked and the day was over. Well I will make up for it today. Or not … we’ll see. So what is going on? We leave for Nashville in about a week (our insane neighbor and his pit bulls and AK-47s is watching our place, so don’t [...]
I’ve said many times over that one of the best things about having more than one kid is comparing and contrasting them. I don’t mean this in a “your sister would never do that!” sort of way. I mean in an it’s fascinating to see how they’re different sort of way. Obviously they both share [...]
It was a busy weekend (duh – aren’t they all?). One thing we did was spend our Saturday morning in the mountains (foothills). We went on one of our favorite local hikes, Corwina Park. I am particularly fond of this hike because it’s beautiful and very shady. There’s a lovely little stream running by the [...]
Earlier this week, I got a new phone. I’ve had my HTC Hero for almost two years and it has worked very well for me, but I got the chance to upgrade at a great price and with how fast things change, I decided to snap it up. I got a HTC Evo which will [...]
My mom had a birthday this past week and one of my small joys is to make a birthday cake for those I love. I always do it with good intent, but my cakes are never particularly… pretty. They always taste good, I will give them that, but they’re not big on the looks. I [...]
My name is Jess. I'm a 30ish wife and working mommy. I love spending time with my family and friends, crafting up weird and beautiful things, cooking delicious food and running lots of miles to work it off. I love chocolate, wine, Photoshop, my Nikon and sleeping in. I do freelance design work for fun and marginal profit at JKN Designs. This is my blog. Read more »
