Our saturday mornings usually begin at 6am with Garth waking up before me to load the car and me lounging in bed until the last possible second. Then I waddle around the house gathering snacks, water, change, and toys for Jack. We drive in our two ultra small cars the mile and a [...]

It’s been over a yea since I went blue, and my hair is that awful brown-roots-and-washed-out blue-green-below-the-ears combo that always makes me shake my head when I see it on someone else. The blue was lovely. I wish that I had the time (it took 8 hours to dye it initially, and 6 [...]

The last few weeks before Halloween were crazy for me! I made 7 Moishe costumes- skipping meals, showers, and sleep to send each one out on time. Each one takes about 20 hours to complete. I made my first adult-sized Moishe and I made a set for 4 month-old twin boys. I took some photos [...]

Many thanks to the lovely Emily at Southern Weddings Magazine for featuring my xoelle paraphenalia on Lara Casey’s blog. The feature can be found here.
It’s flattering to be recognized by such ladies with such amazing taste!

It seems from the time that you were born you were aware that there were things that you were not able to do, and this made you very, very mad. I konw that sometimes babies just cry, but not you. You’ve always been a mover and a shaker, just without the coordination or [...]

goodbye trips to the fire station, car overflowing with milk jugs and shampoo bottles.
goodbye tripping over bags of aluminum cans and boxes of cardboard in the garage.
hello lovely curbside recycling can.

As we were in bed this morning having our pre-day cuddle session we heard what sounded like our garbage truck outside, but different. We [...]

Garth and I are heading to the hospital tonight for some medical intervention to get little Jack born. I’ll be induced this evening with the hopes that he’ll be born sometime tomorrow, so I’ll be signing off here for a little while- but I’ll still try to tweet.
love and peas,
elle

This week has been all about cleaning out our computer room and moving it into the living/sewing/craft room so that Jack can have his own special place when he’s born. This has created several small challenges for me:
one: I’ve had to condense and clean the stacks of fabric, paper, and keepsakes (read: receipts, [...]

Oh Gap commercials, I love you.

Fueling my obsession with the Gap holiday sweater, I wandered over to the Gap’s online store to see this winters lineup and ran into their holiday marketing campaign. Rainn Wilson singing baby it’s cold outside and John Heder dancing like my brother Josh? I’m sold.
To get into the [...]

the Hawker belly game, originally uploaded by xoelle.

It’s my brother Scott’s birthday today. He’s getting so old. He even owns a truck now.
That’s him on the left…he has always been dominated by everyone at the belly game because he’s so scrawny.
I love you dude.
xo elle