Birthdays are complicated. I used to love celebrating my birthday before my parents got extra awful. It was the one day I knew I could feel loved and important to people who never made…

For our first time eating in a restaurant since March of last year, we decided to take Sean’s mom out to dinner for Mother’s Day at one of our favorite eating establishments. It felt like a big…

Mother’s Day brings up mixed emotions for me. I generally try to ignore it as long as possible and then deal with it when it is upon us. Usually, it falls right around my birthday, so I…

Just when I thought the weather was looking up, it has been rainy and cold a majority of the week. Such is the Pacific Northwest. Last Saturday though, it was sunny and a bit too hot for…

To celebrate Mother’s Day (and my birthday), we opted to try something new and head out to Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington for their big Mother’s Day Brunch. The weather was absolutely…

I love my sweet, elderly furkids! They are such a big part of my life and my heart, that I will be devastated when they have to leave me. I’ve already told them that we need to figure out…