As usual, all intentions towards blogging fell by the wayside and here we are, two weeks later, with me at the kitchen table, watching Hamilton on Disney+ with the girls, wondering what all we've done over the past two weeks. I know last Saturday I went out to our beautiful new patio (or cattio, as we call it, since Milo has adopted it as his own personal palace) in the morning when the boys were at a swim meet and the girls were sleeping. I had my laptop, fresh cup of tea, and a Milo, but somehow my laptop immediately went on the ground and I started re-reading a book (the finale of Kresley ..read more

Copying the theme of great bloggers before me, I thought I'd catch up on things non-Taylor Swift with a quick hits list. Here are five random things I thought were worth covering when I sat down just now, without my emotional support work laptop because our firm is updating some systems this weekend and I had to leave it in the office which is something I've never done since I re-joined and it's acutely uncomfortable. Yes I can login with this personal laptop if I had to, but it's not the same. Milo is holding me for comfort. Anyway, I just sat down to watch the latest episode of Top Chef Sea ..read more

Friends, I tried to be practical and frugal after I was initially not selected by the Ticketmaster gods to buy tickets to any of the Taylor Swift Dallas shows. It's okay, I decided, it's been an expensive year, the girls have never been to a concert so they don't know what they're missing and we never do big crowded things. This is fine. I planned my birthday Rice Ladies trip to Colorado for the same weekend and didn't think about it again. Then everyone I know went to one of the Dallas shows and I was filled with crushing regret. Not for my trip- that was a highlight of my year, but I felt ..read more

Hi everyone! (And Landon's girlfriend who has apparently found this blog, according Landon, who seemed tickled by the whole thing.) Since we last spoke I have turned 40 and the wisdom of the universe has been bestowed upon me. It's nice. Honestly, turning 40 was pretty great and I've decided I'm going to stick with it for a few years. Forget 39, 40 is where it's at. I have MANY highlights from the last two weeks, so this will be more of a bullet point list by picture. Last week I flew to New York for work. I deeply love that city. Even when it rains. Or maybe especially when it rains- mak ..read more

Thank you for your questions in the AMA, I had fun answering them! There's something about forcing myself to spend 2 minutes answering a prompt without agonizing over making sure my answer if full, measured, and complete. Instead, I just typed whatever popped into my head. It was an excellent exercise we will have to do again. But while I was doing that, about a million things have been happening over here! Like this beautiful custom bookcase for our gameroom! It just got painted yesterday (Benjamin Moore Hale Navy) and I can't wait to fill it with our only remaining unpacked boxes, all of wh ..read more

Dear gentle readers, why isn't there a Season 3 of Bridgerton yet for me to binge while trapped in this house for the rest of my life? Or Never Have I Ever or The Sex Lives of College Girls or a surprise reboot of Veronica Mars? (Speaking of a reboot- I LOVED the first season of Reboot on Hulu and now I saw it's not been renewed and there is no fairness in this life.) Why yes, we are on Day 4 of no school and general ice-mageddon. Last night in a fit of familial love and cherishment, 100% brought on by the fact that school was supposed to reopen today, we had everyone clean the gameroom toget ..read more

Keeping up with my early and mid-month themes so far this year, I will attempt to close out the month with a post as well! I have already made our traditional Friday night pizza dough and it's rising in the oven, so I'm taking these minutes back while the girls are getting their hairs cut in the kitchen (the proliferation of the mobile hair stylist is one of my favorite post-Covid advancements). Diving in - our gameroom sectional got kind of delivered today! Two of the three pieces were supposed to come, but one of them was wrong (it's a sectional, it seems obvious we'd want all pieces to be ..read more

Happy 2023! We're 16 days in already and the last piece of our beautiful coral velvet sectional that will go in the gameroom is supposed to be complete in "mid January" and I feel like that is now and yet apparently it is not. On the upside, many other things have been delivered and it remains the longest Christmas ever around here with boxes still arriving at a regular, if slower, pace. Like the ping pong table above, which has been played on every day for two weeks, including before school and very late at night. It will be moved further back in the room once the couch arrives, but so far i ..read more

Helloooo 2023! 2022 was a big year for us. I have a lot of thoughts about it that are all jumbling around in my head and heart. This time last year I had pulled myself together and was interviewing with law firms, increasingly certain that was the next path I wanted to take and increasingly anxious that I might once again reach for something that wouldn't work out. But it did! I told my boss at the SEC I was leaving in late January, packed up my office with James and the kids on February 4, and started at the firm on February 21. We celebrated and cheered and put new childcare and household ..read more

It appears that road trips are one of the only times I can clear out an hour to update this blog. We are currently driving from Dallas to Houston to spend Christmas with my parents and brother, sister-in-law, and their 17-month-old twins. Santa's sleigh is packed and the kids are so excited to spend the holiday with Papa and Gigi and their tiny cousins. Maggie is just excited she made it into the sleigh. Our lock-in two weeks ago was highly successful and we will definitely be doing it again next year. I collected everyone's phones, including James and mine, and put them in a drawer and we w ..read more