Let me re-introduce myself: Please welcome our brand new look! I worked with Erin and Tim Cooper over at CooperHouse for the last six months on bringing my vision for this space to life. Given all that's been going on, what with a new baby and a new...
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I studied art in college, primarily. Growing up, it was clear to me that my outlet was creative expression; In high school I excelled in painting, drawing and ceramics. I played the violin in the orchestra and guitar in a couple of girl bands, wearing...
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Last year I lost my two year old hard drive. It went down in a blaze of glory, taking all of my photos and documents with it… thousands of memories that I had captured through half of our life in New York City. It was...
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This has been a full week of total life immersion. I've been in and out of my OB's office which means any and all preparation for baby and nesting like a crazy lady. While Baby Shyba's due date isn't until the 11th, things are looking...
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I have a hard time sending my kids to school for the day. When Jack and Zoe were two, we enrolled them in a twos program at our local Y in New York City; It was only two hours a day for twice a week...
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So shopping is a thing for me. It's probably pretty evident that I enjoy looking around for different, wonderful things for my kids and my home. It's a bit of a creative outlet for me-not the spending part, but the actual searching and finding beautiful...
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By the time September rolls around, the days are still hot and feel worn like a really great pair of leather boots. The sun is always welcome, but the hours stretch on as if ignoring that pestering shoulder tap coming from fall. We don't want...
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I can comfortably say that it's taken me seven years of parenting and nearly four full-term pregnancies to know what I like in terms of products for this amazing/crazy period of life. I'm finding out that my preferences on nearly everything is bleeding over into...
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Thank you to CAbi for sponsoring the following post. You can view their new St. Barth's collection here. There was more than one occasion when I found myself home with Jack and Zoe as babies in our teeny little New York City apartment, wondering how I...
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This Easter was the first one in five years that we've spent with our family in California. It was the clearest reminder of why we are living where we are and how important it is to be around people that love and care about us....
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Every morning at our house starts out the same: Jack wakes up and races into our room to let us know that he is going downstairs to watch a show. Zoe trickles in later fully dressed to say good morning and starts into a story...
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Personally speaking, there are relatively few things that have stayed the same since my transition into motherhood. Aside from being an almost entirely different human being mentally, of course there are the physical changes that have come along with three babies and 7 years. I'm not...
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