Dear J’Aiden, I can’t believe you’re 7 months today! Between your multiple road trips, you taking your first flight and starting solids, you had quite the adventurous 6th month! I don’t know why it seems as if time is flying. Perhaps it’s because…well it is. I know you can’t read this yet (though at the […]

Dear Journal, Over the past few months, so many of my friends have become mothers. I’ve celebrated with them, co-signed with their struggles and cheered them on…we are each other’s support system.  As I sit back and enjoy all the ups and downs the motherhood rollercoaster takes me on, it fills me with so much […]

Dear Journal, June 3, 2016. I remember it like it was yesterday. We had just gotten back to Alaska from our month long travels to Virginia, D.C. and California. The night before, we ate, drank and cheered on my beloved Golden State Warriors as they took Game 1 against Cleveland in the NBA Finals. I […]

Dear Journal, You ever met someone who you just KNEW was truly someone special? That the very essence of them was something magical? I have and her name is Dayna. I can’t quite put my finger on it…maybe it’s the way her smile lights up any room she’s in…maybe it’s her unapologetic sass. It could […]

Dear Journal, There’s something very special about a mother-daughter relationship. It’s the type of relationship that can’t be summed up by one word. It’s everything we are and everything we aren’t. As daughters, we may not always see eye to eye with our moms while we’re growing up. We feel like they never understand us […]