03/22/2017
We are leaving for Stockholm in three days and I feel utterly unprepared. When it comes to travel, I’m such a planner. You know the person that plans a three week trip to Europe with nothing but a backpack and a Eurail pass in hand? I’m the opposite. It’s not that I need my days scheduled, but if there is a can’t miss restaurant then I want to have a reservation and should we find ourselves in a particular neighborhood, I want to know what all of my options are for that area. (If you know anything about the … 
I’ve having a bit of an Easter conundrum here. Despite whether or not she would remember, we’ve always gone all out for holidays like Christmas and her birthday, but have been total slackers when it comes to Easter. (Last year we were actually on a plane to Hawaii on Easter.) There have so far been no baskets and no egg hunts and no one has been the wiser, but now I’m suddenly on a mission to provide the quintessential Easter for this three year old. (Although, maybe one with less chocolate and less of that plastic grass … 
Call it living in California for too long, but I’m a sucker for casual cool. Give me a flowy dress, a cozy sweater or jeans and a tee any day. I’m just not into anything that’s super fussy. I recently read an essay in InStyle that Leandra Medine penned on personal style. “Look at street-style photography,” she writes. “We often complain about how downright fake the photos from Fashion Week can feel. But we’ve been conditioned to believe that the craziest, loudest outfit wins. And here’s where … 
This childcare topic is ironically timely. Parker’s school is on Spring Break this week, in addition to my sister and mom both being out of town for most of the week. (My mom came over this morning and watched her while we prepped for a shoot tomorrow which was so incredibly helpful.) No big deal, though, right? Just schedule a babysitter. Which I did… until she came down with the world’s most prolonged stomach bug. I was literally walking out the door Monday night to a work party– she had been fever and throw up … 
