* Staying up after Rafael and Ramon have gone to bed for some 'me' time * Crawling into bed in the pitch black darkness, hearing t...

"Invented in the mid-1800s as a last-ditch option for orphans and underweight babies, packaged infant formula has since been perfected ...

We're waiting every day for snow to cover this village in white...no luck yet. It's a brown world for now, though sometimes there...

I took these today after Rafael's bath. He is so incredibly sweet, so full of smiles and laughter...though I know he looks serious h...

" The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. " -Terri Guillemets The hoarfrost is e...

Last night on an evening walk I could have sworn I smelled snow. That cold, sweet, clean smell. There was no snow, but all the tree ...

My friend Daniela, whose baby girl was born four days after Rafael, invited me over to her farmhouse for a get together to make advent wr...