renee nicole says

Hey there last day of 2014… I had a baby! This is Maxwell Brooks. He’s essentially perfect. After torturing me on the inside throughout my pregnancy, he arrived in dramatic fashion on Decem...

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we had some photos taken last week to commemorate our last few months as a family of three. the photo shoot was a complete disaster with Annabelle running the opposite direction and shrieking eve...

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How can it be the middle of September already?  You won’t hear any complaints from me - being six months pregnant in the 90 degree humidity was not my cup of tea. give me 60 degrees, legging...

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Anecdotally:  I lost her today at a Tuesday Morning store. We were browsing through the aisles and she was trailing about 5 feet behind me until I turned around and she had vanished. Like in t...

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Sunday Evening. We bought a couch with a chaise on one end and it’s my new favorite spot in the house. We still need curtains, but for now our sunset views from this angle are unobstructed. ...

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but guys, look at my gorgeous friends… holding my photo on a stick that they carried around the entire weekend, sending me texts and pics of #stickrenee all over nashville. it was hilarious and...

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there was a black cloud following me around last week. i had a slew of random doctor’s appointments at the beginning of the week because i wasn’t feeling well. then once that was under cont...

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humansofnewyork : > “We were laying in bed just the other night, looking at the > ceiling, and I said: ‘You know, it’s been thirty years, and > it’s never felt...

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since we’ve moved, we have a new bedtime routine for the kiddo. after her bath she comes up to our room to read a few books and drink some milk as we wind down before bed. it has quickly become...

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gasp-shock : > Summer sides for days! I’ve been slowly working through these > caprese alternatives >  > as the produce appears at the farmer’s market or as burrata�...

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you guys are awesome. thank you for all the kind words about our new bambino to be. we’re so excited!  i’m due december 16th so we’ve got about five months to go. just enough time to get...

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the our lil family had a fantastic 4th of July together, enjoying the lake, the sunshine and lots of BBQ’d meals… …and we finally made it known that BABY #2 will be here in December! and...

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our house is still empty, save for these chairs and a mountain of boxes in the basement. BUT! the floors are done (don’t they look pretty?) and the walls are painted and the new trim is up and ...

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ANNABELLE DYLAN @ 16 MONTHS + 2 WEEKS Such a big kid these days! it seems like overnight she went from wobbly toddler to running around like an actual little girl. For example she wants to stan...

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Living in the city for the past 8 years, I’ve accepted the fact that even if you share a common hallway or elevator, people just aren’t inclined to be that friendly. Our neighbors in our cond...

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Blurry photo of home ownership happiness! We are officially suburbanites. We closed Tuesday and have spent the entire week basically ripping up everything about the house that had to go. I spen...

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annabelle is down to one nap per day, usually from 12:30-3:30 every afternoon. that means our mornings are wide open, just waiting for FUN to be had!  in actuality, sometimes i wake up and fee...

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we close on our house on tuesday. tuesday!  it has been a loooong road to get here. the mortgage process is so different from when we bought 5 years ago… the endless paperwork and requiremen...

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i’ve been reading like crazy lately - 7 books in the last month or so! i think i’m finally back in the game and wanted to share some good reads with all of you. and here you go, the laziest b...

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we had a fantastic weekend, with zero plans on our agenda! quite the change of pace as we’re always running from this suburb to that one and here and there and whatnot. we just spent time toget...

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