Encouragement

  2020 has been a year of unknowns, of finding "new normals," for all of us. For those of us entering parenthood in 2020, adjusting to a new normal may seem like too much to handle along with adjusting to...

Over the last year, I lost 10-15 pounds. Last month, while assessing my closet for our annual Christmas card photo, I eyed a blue number hanging in the back. The vintage-inspired, satiny fit and flare with black bow was...

This past year certainly brought challenges no one could have predicted and it's certainly a year that will be talked about for a long time to come. As this year comes to a close, we wanted to take a...

From the moment you share that you're pregnant, or even just thinking about pregnancy, you'll begin to receive all the unsolicited parenting advice you can ever want.  It'll come from friends, family, coworkers, and your neighbors. Wait till that cute...

Honestly, I didn't navigate quarantine or the shelter at home orders as well as I thought I would. The day George Floyd was murdered was the day after the woman in Central Park called the cops on the man who...

The year 2020 has been hard; like unprecedentedly hard. Despite an impressive communal effort to constantly seek the bright side, this dumpster fire of a year has definitely had more valleys than peaks. If you're like me, you might periodically...

I had imagined this day for a long time.  My sweet, sweet Abuela lived a wondrous, abundant life. She proudly raised five children, nurtured thirteen grandchildren, and experienced seven great-grandchildren. She has lived in Puerto Rico, Spain, Louisiana, and Texas....

I have to brag for a moment because my husband and I are now undergoing a home renovation for the third time in three years. Try not to be too jealous of our ongoing under-construction home site. The first...

Two days. It took a full two days to really recover from the hangover of working the most monumental election in history. 17 hours. Checking identifications, birth dates, addresses and relaying the names letter by letter to two other...

I won’t be liked by everyone. Isn’t that obvious? It’s impossible for everyone in the world to like you all of the time. Even though that’s logical, known, and a lesson we teach our kids so early on, sometimes it...