• family

    #070707 7 years later

    7 years ago today on 07/07/07, this happened… Here’s to 7 wonderful years… and so many more happy anniversaries down the road! [All the wedding details you can be found here]

  • family

    my extraordinary kid

    Over the past four years of motherhood, I’ve realized something that’s pretty remarkable. Miss L is an extraordinary kid. And we’re not talking about her getting a PhD at age 5 extraordinary, but in that every day way that is…

  • lifestyle

    camping in Yosemite for the first time

    “Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. Nowhere will you find more company of…

  • lifestyle

    Great American Backyard Campout 2014

    We’re most definitely a camping kind of family. Mr. M sometimes thinks that I’m not very outdoorsy, but I think that opinion goes away every time I outlast him on complaining about a lack of showers or worrying about bears…