I’m so behind on Archer’s monthly updates for my own records. In fact, we totally blew past his 9 month checkup in October (too much stuff going on between traveling to LA and then my mom’s health stuff).  This giant baby is wearing 12-18 month clothes, eating loads of food (including the dog food a […]

Christmas confession: we have maybe 3 or 4 big Rubbermaid totes full of Christmas decorations up in the attic, as well as a box of the Land of Nod decorations that I keep with the white Christmas tree in a downstairs closet. And so far? The only decorations that have seen the light of day this […]

After the rocky month and a half we’ve had, Thanksgiving was the last thing on my mind. I told Simon I wanted to skip it, to be honest. Not that we weren’t grateful or didn’t have things to give thanks for. On the contrary! In fact, we have more than ever to be thankful for. […]

Are you familiar with silhouette artist Carter Kustera? He’s done some pretty stellar work (um, hello, Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan — quite possibly my most favorite Pin ever) and is famous for his colorful spin on the classic silhouette portrait. Growing up, we had those hand-cut black paper silhouettes hanging in the hallway in little […]