Looking for party garland for a birthday party or baby shower or even decorating a child’s bedroom? Maybe I’m the last to notice, but Land of Nod is now carrying a line of party decor and they have a good selection of colorful garland. I’m tempted to buy a few just to have!
Painted Pumpkins
This house we are renting has a nice, big rocking-chair front porch. My last house only had a front door stoop that was too small for even a large pumpkin without the front door banging into it. So it’s been fun decorating the exterior of this house. Nothing fancy but the kids love all the pumpkins! We painted some of them black and…
San Francisco
Last month for my birthday I celebrated with a much-needed girls’ weekend to San Francisco to celebrate with some of my Vegas girlfriends. I left a house full of half-emptied moving boxes, and a husband in charge of four young children and took full advantage of all-things girls and a little freedom–like reading a book…
Missin’ NYC
In the city I love…snippets from the last time I was there. Missing the change of seasons.
Lemonade Stand
I know it’s almost October and I should be talking about apple picking and pie baking, and here I am talking about our lemonade stand that we had this summer. Honestly our summer was very uneventful. We were living in between Connecticut and Atlanta (living in corporate housing which was a 2-bedroom apartment) and didn’t…




