Parenting | From Car Seats to Empty Seats

In this sprint to the finish line to launch a senior, I keep categorizing this life we live as a way to process. Today, I am thankful to see Kainehn’s life in the seats he has sat in. Particularly, in the car. Our family has always captured moments in the car… our drive time together […]

Crawfish, Me & The Welded Time Machine

Meet one of my favorite things in the world. This is a cooker, welded by my dad in the late 80s, early 90s. He started cooking crawfish for my birthday when I was 15. I didn’t like crawfish at the time, but he would simply say ‘sometimes it’s about feedin’ people little’n’. To a spoiled […]

Grief | The Birthday Crasher

For the last 2 years, I’ve gotten a little sad around my birthday. Last year I was sad thinking about me, as a baby, in a hospital for 5 days before anyone ever picked me up. I found comfort in knowing I was loved and I belonged to someone during that time, but it made […]

Grief | And It’s Colors

Grief can be so overwhelming that it overstimulates every sense at once. Sometimes the colors of the world are too brilliant, light is too bright, and the noise around us invades our thoughts in the most intrusive way imaginable. Then, at the same time, the world can be void of all color. We can feel […]

Grief | The Toddler

It’s been 2 years since my mom passed away. I started a blog journey in 2019 and as many things in life, I got a little side tracked. Here’s what grief is still teaching me. Grief is a Toddler No matter how much we tune grief out, tell it to ‘hold it’, or pretend like […]

Grief | The Reminder

It’s funny how some moments have no measurement and yet are completely unforgettable. Life got busy and I stopped blogging… but here we are 2 years away from the last time my mom and I had a coherent- ish conversation. The picture of the giant pile of leaves was taken in Sepember 2018 because it […]

COVID 19 | The Teacher

I process through words. Read if it is helpful… DO NOT READ if your anxiety rises every time you see the word CORONAVIRUS. The empty shelves in my favorite grocery store told a story louder than I could articulate March 12, 2020. The Coronavirus was here and everything was changing at a pace my world […]