Mom Life

Lessons in Letting Go & Being Present

You know what I did the other night, as I drove home from work? I left the day behind. I shed it slowly on the drive home…I left pieces of it scattered on Ocean Park Blvd., strewn across the ever-crowded 405, fragments on the side of the 90.  It wasn’t…

Baby Wearing and the Sakura Bloom

I hope that you are all enjoying the long holiday weekend!  I am so excited to have Heather from I Lay Smiling posting today.  She is a momma to two gorgeous kids, Rowan and Briar, and is super knowledgable about baby wearing and different kinds of slings and carriers so I…

Family Time

\ This past weekend we flew up to San Francisco to spend time with my family and celebrate my Opa’s 89th birthday (‘grandfather’ in German).  Can you imagine? Eighty-nine years…so incredible. This man lived through the holocaust, through World War II, polio, cancer….he is a survivor, and he has such…

Aquarium with the Babes

One of the perks of being a parent is getting to share what you love with your little one(s), and as a self-professed animal-loving nerd, I will take any opportunity to go to the aquarium.  We have a membership at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, and Big…

A Bug in the Snow

  Ok so maybe I’m slightly obsessed with our little babe, who we refer to as “the Bug”.  I realize there are a crap ton of pics of her but it’s so hard to choose just a couple! Little C looooves the snow when we go up to Utah-she thinks…