Happy August! This August is looking quite different from all the others in my life, not only because I’m pregnant, but also because I’m not going back to teaching this fall for the first time in a decade. This was a big decision to make, but definitely the right one for me and our little…
Book Thoughts: My 2025 Beach Reads
Summer reading is my favorite – especially at the beach. I love becoming absorbed in a wonderful story while sitting in the sun with the ocean as my soundtrack. Here are the five books I read while on vacation this year! Table for Two by Amor Towles I just loved Table for Two by Amor Towles. I…
Scenes of Summer Life in Rhode Island, Pt. 5
July always brings Rhode Island – the most precious time of year when my family stays in my grandmother’s coastal countryside home. The days are so simple and beautiful; I treasure the familiar routines. We wake up, have breakfast, go for a walk down the dirt road and admire the wildflowers and hydrangeas, pack up…
Summer Life Lately: Breezy Dresses, Hydrangeas, New Screen Porch Pillows, & More
Happy summer! I’m currently 16 weeks pregnant and two days away from 17, and feeling so good! As baby boy and my bump grow, I have been wanting to wear nothing other than breezy summer dresses. It’s just the comfiest option for a pregnant summer! I am linking all the dresses I’ve been wearing lately…
Book Thoughts: One Golden Summer, 33 Place Brugmann, Taylor Swift by the Book, and All That Life Can Afford
Summer reading has begun! Kick it off with these reads. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune I really enjoyed Carley Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different last year, so knew I needed to read her latest, One Golden Summer, and I loved it, too. It’s about Alice, a photographer who longs to create work that…
A June Week in Jackson Hole
H and I returned on Saturday from a dreamy week-long stay in Jackson Hole, Wyoming – and, surprise, we are having a baby! We had this trip planned before knowing I was pregnant, and thankfully, I was 14 weeks along and comfortably in the second trimester, feeling quite good. I have a fear of flying…
