I am a little Christmas-obsessed. I mean, I am my mother’s daughter and she has been dubbed The Queen of Christmas...so I’m not bragging...

Last night, two things of seemingly little consequence occurred. 1.) My new 800 thread count king-sized sheets finally arrived, and 2.)...

One day, long before we were parents, I made Michael lasagna. I know it’s kind of difficult to mess up mozzarella-y, beefy, noodle-y...

Michael is kind of this super-handsome annoyingly-fit sort of guy. Like, he can just decide to go run a half-marathon without training...

After a couple of weeks of playing pass the sickness, everyone in my family is finally on the up and up. When I realized that it is...

Today while I was cooking dinner, you scooted a chair up next to me and climbed up. You told me, “I wanna help you, Mommy.” I was...

There is just something lonely about a Monday morning. It started off early, as most days do, and I felt the weight of the week in front...

In middle-school, it was a look. I wasn't unpopular and I wasn't bullied. But man--- grades six through eight are not for the faint of...

I squinted the sweat out of my eyes to look at the stop watch counting down on my phone’s screen. Ten more seconds in plank position....

Near the end of my pregnancy with Ellie, I went to a free one-night class about breastfeeding. I left this class feeling completely...

The day after Ellie’s first birthday party, a Sunday, I was standing in the bathroom at my in-law’s house when I got my positive...

A while back, your dad collapsed on the bed next to me as I was completing my nightly ritual of  shoving pillows between my ankles and...

Now that I’m in Texas, the land that I fantasized about during many long, Idahoy, winters, I realized something about myself—I only...

This baby of mine. She’s obviously utter perfection. Check out those baby blues, that perfect face, the too-big bow on top of her...

So, I’ve kind of grown accustomed to being a college student’s wife. There are some serious perks, man. For starters, you get to be super...

Dear Elise, Now that you’re one, you toddle around on chubby legs that you clumsily lift high into the air with each step, as if you’re...

The second time I met Michelle, I was wearing zebra pajama pants and crying. She lived in the apartment next to mine, and she had already...

Hey, Rexburg, When I first met you back in the fall of 07′, I was a naive, almost 19-year-old college freshmen grounded in my Texas...

Today, we were those people. The ones taking up way too much space in the very back left row of the 737 with our half-zipped carry-on...

I sit here typing while my husband and baby nap, watching the snow just come on down like it’s been doing all day. I haven’t seen it...