Meet Our New Family Pets – Part Deux

August 16, 2019

Meet Our New Family Pets Okay, just like the hermit crab races that occur at our house now, let’s get this story to the finish line. After we came home with the three hermit crabs, Woody, Violet2 and Sandy, we resumed vacation-life. If we wanted to go to the rides and games though, we had […]

Meet Our New Family Pets!

August 11, 2019

Meet Our New Family Pets! Last summer, Princess Roundhead and Chubs made us that deal that if we got them hermit crabs then we didn’t have to get them American Girl Dolls. We fell for it, got them their crabs and then we ended up at the stupid American Girl Doll Store anyway to spend […]

DC’s Best Hair Stylist ~ Living in Washington DC

August 09, 2019

Best Hairstylist in DC It’s summer here in D.C, and if you’re anything like me, you’re in a daily battle to tame the frizz monster that is your hair. Today I’m going to share my secret weapon with you—and he goes by the name of Michael Nunez Mattovich. On this episode, I’m visiting M Studio […]

Living in Washington DC With Kids & Dogs: She’s Not Dead, She Just Fell Over and Looks Dead

July 03, 2019

Living in DC With Kids And Dogs It is rare that I look back on a day and say, “Good parenting today, Melissa.” Mostly I feel like I’m just getting by on fumes and promising myself I’ll do better tomorrow. I’ll get back to this in a moment. There’s a postscript to the story of […]

School’s Out FOR SUMMER

June 14, 2019

School Is Out FOR SUMMER Today is the last day of school. Oh how I look so forward to summer with the kids. This is an exceptionally busy summer for us with work, weddings and all the planned visits we have to fit in, but I’m thrilled it’s summer. Even if I’m consistently sweating like […]

On Wednesdays, We Wear Pink

June 03, 2019

On Wednesday’s We Wear Pink Like so many other mothers of girls, I do not look forward to the teen years. I can’t believe my girls are going to endure the really crappy teen nonsense and there is nothing I can do about it. I encourage all the camaraderie they have with their girlfriends now, […]