Browsing Tag

family

  • brittany, 9 pm.

    We’ve been singing rounds of Wheels on the Bus, except instead of rousing odes to wheels and windows and wipers, we’re celebrating a rowdy bus of animals: cows and doggies and fish, if you’d like to know.…

    June 9, 2016 12 Comments
  • paris with a toddler.

    If the flaneurs walked turtles, then parents of toddlers have chosen to walk moody puppies who shift from sleepy and complacent one minute, to bubbly and delightful the next, to wailing and obstinate, and back ’round…

    May 31, 2016 30 Comments
  • baby proof: packing light with littles.

    My big sister, Cait, and I have children that are only 16 months apart. And in parenting, and all things, I turn to her for advice and big-sisterly wisdom. Cait has taken my three-year-old…

    February 25, 2016 59 Comments
  • candles reading my tea leaves

    my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week.1. these candles. {because it’d been awhile since we sat around them.}2. this aloe plant. {and the absolute pleasure of getting to stay in a house with windows…

    November 6, 2015 3 Comments
  • portland, or reading my tea leaves

    out and about: portland et cetera.

    If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you might have noticed that we jetted off for a quick trip to visit family in Oregon last weekend. Since my sister Cait moved to Portland this…

    November 5, 2015 16 Comments
  • family camping trip: planning.

    We’ve finally settled on a destination. Maine. It’s not a place we’ve never been, but it is a place that we like to return to, and besides, everything’s new with a Junebug along for…

    July 27, 2015 39 Comments
  • long-distance sisters.

    We went to my parents’ house over the weekend. On Thursday morning, the six of us—me and James and Faye along with my sister Cait and her two guys—took an early train ride. We…

    July 7, 2015 28 Comments
  • family photos.

    When my friend Tim asked if we’d be around on the second weekend of October, and when the answer was yes, we found ourselves all lined up for a little family photo shoot, professional…

    October 27, 2014 25 Comments
  • worst cover letter ever.

    This morning I woke up at 5 am to nurse Faye. As has become habit for me, I drowsily scanned my phone in the halflight and spotted a note from my not-so-little-anymore little sister,…

    September 11, 2014 28 Comments
  • adirondack weekend.

    If one can still be a cousin when separated by marriage and generations and entire sides of the family—and we’ve decided that the answer is yes, indeed—then we spent the weekend with cousins at…

    September 2, 2014 20 Comments