Personal Faves

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season.  We were until Graham came down with a terrible case of croup (a virus that narrows little airways) and then my vacation turned into a tour of hospitals across the Midwest.  OK, probably a bit dramatic but we did go to one hospital in Iowa and [...]

I hinted in my last post that I had a blog I was secretly loving and now I’m letting the cat out of the bag.  You all know I am a wanna-be fashionista.  By that I mean I love fashion but it doesn’t come effortlessly to me.  I have to scour magazines, people watch (which is [...]

I am in awe of those people who just seem to ooze style effortlessly.  You are thinking of someone right now aren’t you?  Someone who can put an outfit together without looking like they gave it a second thought, complete with perfect accessories, that isn’t too match-y but just goes.  That person’s hair is probably [...]

Going back to work after an almost seven month maternity leave sucked.  [My husband is probably thinking, "Here we go again!"]  Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this care for a child, manage the house, cook, bake, and play dates thing, I was thrust back into the working world.  Yuck!  Don’t [...]

A big thank you to Libby for being an awesome guest poster!  I hope she is having fun with it and will continue to post whenever she finds a new fave.  I have been really busy getting back into the swing of things at work but am using up some of my last shreds of [...]

Jean shopping can be one of the most frustrating experiences ever.  Sometimes I feel like I have to try on a million pairs.  If you like the fit in the legs, they seem to gap in the back at the waist.  If they fit in the waist, sometimes they’re tight in the thighs.  And, we [...]

This personal fave is a no-brainer.  If you do any online shopping at all, you’ve probably heard of Zappos.com but I still want to write about it because it is just that awesome.  I have been a customer for years.  They started out with shoes but now have expaned to handbags, clothes, all kinds of [...]