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A Tale of Two Sexists
WARNING: It's about to get a little serious in here. Recently, my sister told me about an unpleasant encounter she had experienced at her college, Fairfield University. She walked into her Physics class, minding her own business, when the male professor asked her if...
My Other Kids
It's probably been difficult for you to read this blog and NOT know that I have a daughter, Cora, who is almost 2. But today I have something to confess: I have other children. One lives in Connecticut, two more live in Indiana, and another two live in Illinois. I...
A Little Bit of Me Time: Bar Louie Giveaway
When you find out you're expecting, one of the nuggets of advice everyone always imparts on you is that, as a mom, you should never be afraid to take a little me-time. It's good for the whole family if you're happy, they say. You deserve a little time to recharge,...
Sometimes They Surprise You
Yesterday Cora and I took a canoeing trip with my family in Indiana through Turkey Run State Park. My daughter inherited the valuable trait from her father that doesn't allow her to sit still for more than five minutes at a time without needing some sort of...
Go Mama Go Designs Giveaway!
When I was pregnant with Cora, I signed up for all kinds of giveaways and freebies for some things I genuinely wanted, and other things I just thought were pretty darn cool. I kind of wish I was pregnant now to get in on the deal that Go Mama Go Designs is offering...
The Leather Anniversary: Tough but Flexible
Today is our 3rd wedding anniversary, and even though Orlando says it's stupid to write out something to someone you are likely sitting right next to (which I'm not at the moment), I still want to take the time to put down on "paper" a small tribute to our three years...
Met Gala Madness
I'll be 100% honest with you. I didn't even remember the Met Gala was last night until I started flipping through my Instagram feed and was slapped in the face by Anna Wintour herself. Just kidding, but as a former fashion lover, it kind of felt like it. This...
Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood…
When Kelly and I first started Haute in Texas, we were both married, child-less, and new to the Texas lifestyle. Since then, she's packed up and moved back to her hometown of Atlanta with husband Drew, I gave birth to a child, and our lives became similar to Frost's...
Happy Birthday Mi Amor
The very first time I celebrated the birth of one Mr. Orlando Mendez-Valdez, I was a freshman in college, and he was my (totally hawt 😉 ) boyfriend. We had officially been a couple for all of two months, and barely knew each other's middle names, much less what our...
You wonder when they lose it…
The first time my Grandma met Cora, she was about 3 months old, still brand-spanking new. As my Grandma's weathered hands softly stroked the silkiness of my baby's hands, she remarked, "Their skin is so soft in the beginning. You wonder when they lose it." At the...
How I Found My Fitness and Got Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Hello Loves, Well I've never been one to shy away from the fact that I am a big girl and honestly, I never minded it too much. I was always on the larger side of normal, brought to you by my sturdy Irish genetics and my middle-class upbringing. I used to always...
Grad School Papers: MIX Travel Article
It’s funny how memories can be one of two ways: full of feeling and emotion, but lacking anything concrete, or tied to a specific place and time where you can remember every detail as if it were yesterday. Looking back on my wedding day, I feel a surge of happiness...
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