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I swear I didn’t intentionally dress Otto and I in coordinating get ups but here we are, mother in son both in coordinating fall outfits. Joe was a good sport about busting out the camera on our fall fest morning. I have been waiting to wear this pumpkin T-shirt that I picked up from a […]

believe it or not you can still find a few places with michigan strawberries available! it’s so rare this late in the season (they’re typically done by june) but with the cold and wet june we had here a lot of things are slower to ripen and pop up at the farmers markets. i made […]

I can’t believe summer is already half over in michigan. we have been soaking up every single ounce we can from parks to beaches. our weekends are usually jam packed with all the kids activities that there are to do around our great state. last year otto hated the beach so we didn’t do much […]

we still have one or two weeks left of strawberry season here in michigan but i have made myself vow no more canning jam. i have enough to last me the next three years. canning is like therapy to me. i finished my jam after otto had gone to bed and sitting at my kitchen […]

this weekend was amazing. i took a nap. I can’t tell you the last time i did that. it wasn’t intentional it just happened as i was putting otto down for his at the cottage. we both just slowly drifted off to sleep only to wake four hours later realizing that it was 5pm and […]

you know that feeling when you get back from vacation and your only objective the next morning is to find underwear that doesn’t feel tight? like everything on me is tight right now. after a week of driving around banff, canada and wine country, california i’m going to have to be off of bread for […]