Author: Erin

  • 32 Weeks {Where’s Baby?}

     

  • Life at the Beach {Our Week in Pictures}

  • Blueberry & Lemon Angel Cake

    Like many, I love to take advantage of cooking and baking with seasonal ingredients.  I made this light and delicious angel food layer cake last week using local blueberries, lemon zest and real whipped cream.  It was divine!   I honestly just made the recipe up as I was going along, using fresh ingredients I had on hand…

  • On Baby Names {and why your name matters}

    There is a crescent moon on the silver night my husband and I lay face to face discussing baby names for our second child.  He smells like soap.  He is blue eyes and rough unshaven.  A breeze rolls through tree tops and our open window.  Cotton drapes shift. “James,” he says. “Too plain,” my first…

  • Beach Cottage Staircase {Before & After}

    Hi friends! I am so excited to finally be able to share the before and after of our front staircase in the beach cottage!  A lot of work went into this project and we are so happy with how everything turned out.  I will give it to you straight-this was a lot of work 😉 …

  • Easiest Homemade Jam

    Quite simply, friends, there is no substitute for homemade jam.  It is so ridiculously delicious.  I would even go so far as to say it is one of the little things that make life extra special and worth the effort.  I was very fortunate to grow up eating homemade jam as a girl; my mom…

  • Dream Future

    via When I was a little girl, my sister Elizabeth and I made elaborate scrapbooks that we each titled our “Dream Future.”   We poured over the Sears and J.C. Penny Christmas catalogs, shopping not for toys and dolls but for the likeness of our future husbands and children.  We would each find our “dream guy”…

  • On Fear, Faith and Life Abundant

    I know one thing for certain.  In a life that is normally grounded by faith, there are potholes of fear that can creep up and threaten to swallow you whole. A year ago we packed our life as we knew it into one massive moving truck and left the city, house and job we had known…

  • Lullabies and Sirens at Bedtime

     via google images We crawl into his twin bed, all three of us, at bedtime.  The space is small but never tight.  I breathe in the smell of baby shampoo from his blonde head and listen as Mr. Marvelous hums lullabies in baritone.  Everything seems safe and quiet when a siren sounds loud outside the…

  • My Summer Bucket List

    In no particular order . . .  via Eat dinner outside-often. via  Plant perennials all around the beach cottage via Spend some time barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen via Learn how to take a great back-lit photo   via Plan a nursery for babe #2 via Spend as much one-on-one time with Babe #1…