It is time to start blogging again. Every so often my brain gets packed with things – ideas, experiences, exciting finds, and I just need to spill them all out into some kind of thought-vomit. Of course, a personal diary or journal isn’t enough for me, I like to make this mental throw-up public, and since my poor little blog has just been sitting here, neglected and lonely ever since my early pregnancy, I decided that it was time to re-open shop.
Things that have changed or need to be addressed in detail in the future:
I am now a proud mommy to Rachel Grace, my now 3-month-old daughter! She was born on Christmas Eve after a whirlwind 6-hour labor I know, a true whirlwind labor would be about 60 minutes, but considering that I was expecting labor to last 24 hours or more, 6 hours was fast. and intense. More about that later.
Since I’m a mommy, I’m now a WAHM, teaching piano lessons one day a week, babysitting my dear friend’s toddler G one day a week, and being mommy/wife/homemaker 24/7.
So I don’t want to fill one post with too much jumbled thoughts. I just wanted to say…
Hello again, blog, I’ve missed you. =)






Hopefully I’ll be more consistent in the future.
summers! You gotta have the gear to make it there! Now we have more than our fair share of North Face, Columbia, Patagonia, Mountain Hardware, etc. but you gotta have a shared hobby, and collecting gear is one of ours! We’re so granola, we crack ourselves up. Chris did work at 






ex- means nothing to us!





