As I type these words, F is closer to his 16th birthday than his 15th which, of course, was the last post I wrote. I had every intention back in January of returning to writing and, truthfully, I’ve missed it a lot. But, my gawd, finding the time has been tough.

So today, I make time.

It’s hard to put into words how full and loud these months have been, and harder still for me to believe I’ve gone so long without writing. E will soon be two, and S is rounding out his final months as a “threenager”. As they say, life just keeps happening!

Transparently, the last few months have been challenging. Juggling parenting and life while trying to figure out how to keep my business moving forward was a lot. In the end, I had a summer that was more full of sunshine and early pickups from daycare than it was paid invoices and client work but I’m grateful for it (even if my bank account is sobbing).

The course of this year was a busy one; F had a tremendous last year of junior high (because, um, HE STARTS HIGH SCHOOL IN FOUR EFFING DAYS) and E completed his first year of daycare! I rappelled off a building! It was a year filled with hockey, lacrosse, late nights, early mornings, and hundreds of thousands of little moments.

As we gear up for another school year, I’m cautiously optimistic that a return to routine along some new developments across the board are going to allow me to be better about making time to write for me because – let’s be very real, here – it’s been a long time since I’ve been writing on this blog with any regularity. Maybe I’ll finally get back to doing the stuff I used to do – like sharing my favourite styles, products, places, and the things I’ve learned.

Hopefully.

Until then…