Coffee – then adulting.

Or wine. Wine then adulting.

Just a mom to a know-it-all teen and an 8-year-old who rules the roost. A wife, a daughter, and a twin sister. Millennial who juggles a full-time job with mental sanity.

Category: Home & Traditions

Holidays, routines, entertaining, memories

  • Post-Holiday Reflections: My 2026 Goals

    Adulting is…making resolutions that I might actually accomplish. It’s been a while since I’ve written. The holidays have consumed my brain. Somehow, now I feel like I finally have some breathing room to think outside of Christmas. In some ways, it felt like a Covid holiday. Everyone was sick (not us, save for my teenager’s…

  • The Dreaded Holiday List: Navigating Gift Giving

    Adulting is…asking for boring – I mean practical – holiday gifts. It’s that time of year again: LIST MAKING. From Christmas lists to New Year’s goals. I’d love to know, what’s everyone putting on their Christmas list (besides an f-ing break)? As a kid, I would never quite understand why my parents and older relatives…

  • Feeling Fall-ish

    I miss the Fall. Like the real Fall. Jumping in the leaves. Just admiring the leaves. Pumpkin picking. Baking apple cake. Haunted hayrides. I haven’t watched one horror movie all month. I guess it’s not too late. But September and October are filled with the hustle of birthday parties, sports, back to school obligations, etc.,…

  • The death of the ‘playroom.’

    I should have been prepared for it. But I didn’t realize how the cleaning and reorganizing of the playroom would hit so hard. I wanted to move my office there. Unfortunately, the size of my desk made it impossible. But I still took the opportunity to clean up foam gun darts and pick off dried…