Happy Birthday, My dearest Softpack. I love you more than I can even express. Heterosexual Life Partners FOREVER!

Among the things contained in yet another awesome weekend: Getting Celia’s. Hanging at The Circle. Going to visit Lisa & bring her cannolis. Getting a mani/pedi- FINALLY! Playing outside with the water table. Running from wasps. 4 mile bike rides where we never actually get to the destination. Cooking for my family. Hudson deciding to [...]

28 is a weird milestone for me. I moved out of my parent’s house the day I turned 18. That was 10 years ago. I’ve been out of high school for a decade. I mean, obviously since I am 18+10. Weirdly enough, me turning 28 means I have been with my husband for exactly HALF [...]

Things have been very exciting around the Brandt household lately. We are all feeling better & the house has been buzzing with the excitement of Scott’s birthday, Truman & Sawyer’s 1st birthday, their party & the fact that they are officially walkers!! It started a day or two ago when Truman walked about three steps [...]

Today was my little cousin’s 5th birthday. And I cannot believe he is 5. My cousin was the first in our group to have kids. I got married a week before Ryan was born- so he was kind of THE baby. The only baby I even knew at the time. And now he is 5!! [...]

Friday was our annual Christmas Party with our friends. This particular Christmas party started at my very first apartment , Christmas 2001. It was my sister-in-law, Krust, my BFF Lisa & my friend Patty. We exchanged gifts & had food & it was awesome. Over the last 9 years it has evolved. The venue & [...]

I was thankful in 2008. I was thankful in 2009. And guess what?! 2010 is no different. Except it is. Because I have grown as a person & a mother & a wife & and… andd… There is just MORE. The capacity in my heart is MORE. Yes, I am grateful for my husband, my [...]

Love you girls 47 million times over. And I’m gonna go ahead & dedicate this jam to you guys! (And as a Beatles fan I am totally comfortable admitting that Joe Cockers version kicked The Beatles versions ASS.)

OK, WE weren’t exploring- but Hudson? He sure is. It is so fun to take him places & to watch him experience things for the first time. Today, we were up & out of the house by 9. There was Starbucks & Noah’s. It was yummy. We met up with Scott’s aunt & strolled a [...]

Gosh, I have a shitton to catch up on, huh? Last Saturday I went to bed at 4am. Then? I woke up at 6:30am in order to take my first ever solo BART trip to San Francisco to attend Bloggy Boot Camp. The conference was cool. I got to see some blog friends & meet [...]