03/13/2017
It’s true that life right now is full of things that are anything but rose petals. Doing taxes. Toddler meltdowns. Finding babysitters for work when preschool decides to celebrate Spring Break. But amidst the hard, the hectic, or the frustrating, there’s just so much good, so much that makes me happy, so much to be thankful for. A healthy toddler who loves to talk to her baby sister first thing in the morning when she wakes up. Sunshine-filled days that are creeping into the eighties. A husband who always cleans the kitchen. … 
You probably already guessed from the title… and the photo, but it’s true! We’re adding another babe to this crew in August and I’m so happy to finally share the news with you guys! There have been so many times that I felt like I was going to share it by accident here or that I wanted to mention my very strange cravings or food aversions, but stayed mum about the subject just a little while longer. Parker has been asking for a baby sister for nearly a year now, so she was so excited when we told her that there was … 
Can we talk about childcare for a quick sec? I promise afterwards we can talk about that cat sweatshirt that I wish they made in my size or these clogs that I can’t stop wearing, but for just a moment, childcare. It is the. hardest. thing. to figure out, at least in my experience, which is likely made more challenging by the fact that neither wardrobe styling or blogging is a typical 9-5 job. Back when we were in Los Angeles, we had a nanny three days a week. That meant that I scheduled all of my work for those three days and all of my … 
Parker is currently in a phase where she constantly asks me to tell her stories about when she was a baby. I proceed to tell her about seemingly mundane moments like the first time we took her to visit the ducks at Franklin Canyon Park or the first time she rode the horses at the Studio City Farmer’s Market. I tell her other stories like what happened on the night she was born when they first laid her in my arms and she looked up at me with these squinty eyes, making such strong eye contact or her first trip to Disneyland when we …