I didn't intend to take two full months off blogging, but such is this busy season of life. Forgive me?

Instead of blogging, I've been doing all kinds of other important things—including but not limited to—growing a baby, turning 34, buying and assembling kid rooms, lots of weekend trips, watching The Bachelor, a day trip Disneyland, reading this book and this one and this one, and hosting our sweet cousins last weekend.

As for work stuff, I'm officially hosting a brand new podcast with Coffee + Crumbs! Some of you may know that I co-hosted a radio show in college (which lasted about two months) and I was a recent guest on the Extraordinary Moms podcast. I've always found the audible medium really fun and also very intimidating. Podcasting is an entirely new hobby for me, and it's huge learning curve but really exciting. I hope you'll consider listening to our first few episodes and please subscribe on iTunes and/or leave a rating. These first few weeks are crucial in gaining momentum so your subscription and rating is super helpful. Thank you for the love!

I also have a few essays up at Coffee + Crumbs too: Preparing to Jump and Finding a Seat at the Table. In even MORE exciting news, Ashlee signed a Coffee + Crumbs book deal with Zondervan and all of us regular writers are contributing essays to the book which releases May 2017! Lots of writing to get done between now and baby's due date! Cue: excitement. Cue: panic.

And for something entirely different, as if podcasting isn't different enough, I've had fun helping my grandpa (he's 90!) launch his first blog. We've added bits and pieces since last fall and there is a lot of interesting content related to his dental research. Most of it is over my head, but fascinating nonetheless.

I promise to not leave this place empty again for long stretches but some of that's dependent on how good of a sleeper our new guy proves to be. 11 weeks until his due date and we are so anxious to see his sweet face. Can't wait to share him with you soon.