Texoma with Kids

Anybody remember that scene in Gone with the Wind when a disheveled and destitute Scarlet O’Hara pulls herself up from the dirt and clenches her fist to the sky claiming, “With God as my witness, I will never go hungry again!”? Well, sometime around my second year of marriage and third broken IKEA dresser, I…

Today I choose to slow down, and appreciate the beauty around me. So I sat outside on the back porch which really I don’t  do enough and I just looked around me. Let me tell you it is beautiful. Right now everything is green and vibrant in our backyard. It reminded me of the day…

I LOVE lists and planning, projects and schematics, reminders and calendars, but I do not do well to put things in my phone and a refrigerator calendar isn’t big enough so I end up with a million scattered sheets of random needs and to dos all over the house and in my purse. When we…

I have a rather large obsession with Rifle Paper Co. and about everything she illustrates and sells. So much so, that for my birthday in September, I asked for this 2018 Inspirational Quote Calendar: Which is now hanging in my office, despite the fact I’ve got another 3 months before I can really even use…

When I started my job, my office came with some artwork already on the walls, but I’ve been wanting to do something that felt more like me for a while. The only problem? I needed something at least 2 feet x 2 feet or larger, and everything large enough to make a difference on the…

I have to admit it. I absolutely LOVE event planning. It’s one of the strange contradictions of my personality. I am a terrible introvert who has learned to be an extrovert. I generally HATE attending anything where mingling is involved, and hate being the center of attention. (Unless I can hide behind a computer and…

I am SO proud of this parenting hack, but sadly I can’t take credit, because it was my husband’s idea. This past weekend we broke out all our alphabet fridge magnets, and Teddy went nuts. The problem was that the kitchen is an off-limits zone that we’ve gated rather than baby/toddler-proofing, so we really don’t…

For the past month or so, we’ve been using a vintage letterpress drawer to display all of our Lego mini figures. Although our kid is too young to not choke on them, it seems like a great (attempt at) organizing toys for older kids (you know, the ones in their thirties, like us…) and I love how it…