Sep 17, 2019 | Family, Motherhood, San Antonio
I learned how to drive in snow in a truck. My dad took me out to a cornfield, packed with ice, snow, and not much else since it was the dead of winter. Ever so carefully, he showed me how to put the truck into a tailspin, then how to slowly ease myself out of it...
Aug 13, 2019 | Cora Marie, Family, Motherhood, San Antonio
Do y’all remember those first-time mom worries? That nagging feeling you’d get in the pit of your stomach when even the tiniest thing seemed off? I know I stayed up late worrying about so many things with Cora that in hindsight seem silly. I was terrified...
Aug 6, 2019 | Family, Giveaways, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Uncategorized
When I was a new mom still nursing my one and only daughter, Cora, bedtime was as simple as 2 + 2. Bath, pajamas, nurse, sleep. That was pretty much the extent of it. The older she got, though, and with the addition of her little sister, there’s now what often...
Jun 4, 2019 | Family, Motherhood, Travel
My family has sort of a cool tradition, and stop me if you’ve heard this already. We take a BIG family vacation, with as many of my six siblings as can make it, plus my parents, all of our kids, spouses, etc. every two years. The twist is that my mom and dad had...
May 10, 2019 | Family, Fashion & Style, Motherhood, San Antonio
There are plenty of ways that my girls are growing up differently than I did. Their childhood is worlds apart, actually, in the literal and figurative sense. I grew up in the cornfields of Indiana, swinging from willow tree branches in the summer and sledding down cow...
Mar 19, 2019 | Family, Issa Brooke, Motherhood, San Antonio
Believe it or not, my baby is now four. FOUR. That’s not even a baby, that’s a little girl. Y’all we’re basically about to drop her off at college. I don’t know why, but a four-year-old sounds a LOT older to me than a 3-year-old. At...