There have been a lot of questions and so here’s my best effort at answering how we’ve handled sleep and a toddler while spending more than a month away from home.Here’s the thing: In…
On the evening that we arrived in Saint-Malo, the light made the city glow like a colorized old-timey postcard. You know the ones? Everything cast in a pale yellow or green-blue or washed-out gray.…
five little things that made my week.1. this shell.{for fitting right in.}2. these hydrangeas.{for blooming before we have to head home.}3. this little yellow jacket.{for being an over-sized solution for keeping a tiny bug moderately…
It must be known that a two-year-old is an intrepid traveler: all gut checks and self-care and general enthusiasm for the new and unexplored. To be fair, a two-year-old is also a terrible traveler: indifferent to…
five little things that made my week. 1. this little yogurt jar. {and those lil’ guys for hanging on.} 2. these sandals. {because it’s warmed up again around here. also, twinsies.} 3. this butter. {because it’s…
These are things I like to write about: Joy found in spreading salted butter onto already buttery brioche. Joy in picking roadside flowers and sticking them, in all their messy glory, into a jar in…
I’m not an expert of photography, but over the years I’ve developed a philosophy on picture-taking while on vacation that I thought might be helpful to share.Over the course of a family vacation, it’s possible…
Here’s a donkey apropos of nothing at all. But isn’t it fuzzy and cute? I think we could all use an extra dose of that today. I’m working with the French national tourism site,…
five little things that made my week.1. this dress.{because i wore it every single day this week.}2. these slippers.{because turns out toes get cold even in june.}3. this mobile.{because as faye would say, bo-ats.}4.…
We’ve been singing rounds of Wheels on the Bus, except instead of rousing odes to wheels and windows and wipers, we’re celebrating a rowdy bus of animals: cows and doggies and fish, if you’d like to know.…