Archive
Every post we've ever written, newest to oldest. 288 entries and counting.
2025 2 posts
2024 6 posts
- Still Here, Still Us
- Seventeen Years Later
- Thirty-Six and Unstoppable
- Freshman Year: How Did We Get Here?
- Fourteen and Fearless
- When Your Daughter Calls You Bestie
2023 4 posts
- Christmas Morning: Coordinated Chaos and Dinosaur Facts
- Peak Form at 35
- Thirteen
- The Keyboard Situation Has Escalated
2022 7 posts
- New Year, Same Main Character Energy
- The Great Christmas Photo Disaster of 2022
- 34 and In My Power
- Twelve
- Then vs. Now: A Glow-Up Story
- Distinguished
- Date Night Vibes
2021 8 posts
- Main Character Energy: Activated
- Christmas Chaos and Everything Perfect
- Ten Years of This Nerd
- 33 and Building Back
- Back to School (And Back to Tears)
- Fashion Police
- Ten Minutes
- Six and Reaching for the Stars
2020 14 posts
- First Shot
- Simple Christmas
- Thanksgiving Tamales and FaceTime Tears
- Halloween 2020: The Year We Built a Candy Chute
- Thirty-Two
- The Couch is School Now
- Small Worlds
- Double Digits During Quarantine
- In Memory of Herman: A Sourdough Tragedy
- Mother's Day
- Four Months of Biscuit
- Everything Is Fine
- Heroes
- Five Years of Theo (And One Very Photogenic Dog)
2019 14 posts
- Twenty Twenty
- Biscuit's First Christmas (Or: How Our Dog Ate the Holidays)
- How We Accidentally Became Dog People
- Thanksgiving Chaos (The Good Kind)
- We Can Do It (Especially in This Costume)
- Eight Years
- Thirty-One and Thriving
- 3.1 Miles and a Lifetime of Feelings
- Red, White, and Feeling Right
- Nine and Growing
- The Best Kind of Mother's Day Morning
- The Garage Has Been Compromised
- Three Minutes of Glory
- Four and Fierce
2018 7 posts
- New Year, Better Goals
- Christmas Morning Pancakes
- Grateful Chaos
- Seven Years
- Thirty
- April
- Three Candles
2017 16 posts
- Christmas Morning
- Saturday
- The Hard Gratitudes
- Halloween Cuties
- Six Years
- 29
- Second Grade and Second Thoughts
- Small Moments
- My Artist
- Getting Back to Us
- The Best Kind of Mother's Day
- Just Breathing
- 31
- The Tooth Fairy Needs Better Time Management
- Two and Terrible (at Eating Cake)
- Different This Time
2016 23 posts
- Home for Christmas
- King of the Die-No-Soars
- Thanksgiving Survivors
- Deck Goals
- Real Witches Don't Do Cute
- Five Years
- Social Director
- Twenty-Eight
- First Grade and First Opinions
- Reading and Growing
- Photo Finish
- Red, White, and New Neighbors
- First Wheels on Creekwood Lane
- The Roar Heard 'Round Apex
- First Mother's Day Home
- Backyard Dreams
- Pinterest vs. Reality: A Love Story
- Thirty, Flirty, and Still Unpacking
- The Keys to Everything
- The One
- One Year of Theo
- Life Choices at 11 Months
- Operation Find A House: Month Eight
2015 22 posts
- Christmas Morning Chaos
- Strong Like Bull
- Thanksgiving Helper
- My Little Turkey Star
- The Incredibles (Incredible Disaster)
- Four Years and Counting
- The Legacy Continues
- Twenty-Seven
- My Baby Started Kindergarten
- The Great House Hunt of 2015
- Sand, Sun, and Survival Mode
- Family Tradition
- Five
- First Real Smile
- Mother's Day: Expectations vs. Reality
- Back in the Game
- Easter Photo Reality Check
- Birthday Naps and Stolen Cake
- Chief Baby Officer
- The 3 AM Club
- Party of Four
- The Waiting Game
2014 19 posts
- Tamales and Third Trimester
- Thanksgiving Recovery Mode
- Golden Hours
- Pumpkin Life Chose Me
- Three Years In
- Twenty-Six
- Baby Number Two (Plot Twist Edition)
- She Gets It From Me
- Beach Hair, Don't Care (But Actually I Do Care A Lot)
- Finally a Fan
- Princess for a Day
- Gallery Opening
- Priceless Art
- This Body
- 13.1 Miles Later
- Celebrating My Favorite Designer
- Valentine's Day Reality Check
- The Artist's Eye
- 13.1 Miles of Audacity
2013 19 posts
- The True Believer
- The Kids Who Stay
- Our Little Thanksgiving Star
- Wonder Woman vs. Bedtime
- Two Years
- First Day of Everything
- Quarter Century
- 3 AM Mom Guilt
- Loud Stars
- The Birthday Dictator
- The No-Filter Years
- Crown Jewels
- 3.1 Miles of Pure Stubbornness
- We Have a New Artist in the House
- Twenty-Seven and Counting
- Called Out by a Two-Year-Old
- Actual Adults
- The Artist Emerges
- Resolution Revolution (Toddler Edition)
2012 19 posts
- Santa Magic
- Party of Four (Sort Of)
- Actually Grateful
- The Antennae Situation
- 365 Days
- 24 and Ancient
- First Day
- Three Miles and Counting
- Fourth of July: Take Two Hundred
- Two Years of Sophie (And Attitude)
- Summer Survival Mode
- Mother's Day Massacre
- One Year In
- Easter Egg Expert
- Twenty-Six and Still Learning
- The Tiny Dictator Speaks
- Actual Adults
- The Great Banana Incident of 2012
- Resolution Reality Check
2011 22 posts
- Our First Christmas as the Hartwells
- The Other Side of Christmas
- Two Down, Marriage Intact
- Welcome to The Hartwells
- Two Weeks In
- One Year Ago Today
- Three Weeks and Counting
- Twenty-Three
- Why Wedding Seating Charts Are Actually Torture Devices
- Twenty Minutes
- Our Patriotic Exit Strategy
- One Year
- The Little Dictator
- Wedding Planning Reality Check
- First Mother's Day
- One Year
- First Steps (Sort Of)
- Happy Birthday to My Favorite Dad
- The Dress (and the Damage)
- Romance, Redefined
- The Word That Changed Everything
- Resolution Reality Check
2010 27 posts
- Sophie's Christmas Morning Review
- We Have a Venue!
- Sophie's First Thanksgiving
- Night Shift Life
- First Day Jitters
- Operation Baby Pumpkin
- The Great Milestone Robbery
- Wedding Planning: Pinterest Edition
- Twenty-Two
- Everything Stopped
- RN After My Name
- The 3AM Truth
- The Google Dad
- 4 AM Thoughts
- She's Here
- Making It Real
- Eviction Notice
- Midnight Assembly Required
- BSN and Baby Bump
- Ring Spam Alert
- He Drew It First
- Last Clinical Done (And I'm Still Standing)
- Birthday Boy
- Pink
- 365 Days Later
- Week 18: The Basketball Phase
- Radiant or Nauseous? (Apparently the Same Thing)
2009 24 posts
- Midnight At Home
- Christmas Disasters and Baby Cravings
- One Year of Napkin Art
- The Big Announcement
- Two Lines, One Life Change
- Office Supplies and True Love
- Good People
- Study Mode: Activated
- Twenty-One
- Living in Sin (and a Tiny Apartment)
- The Cable Conspiracy
- Secret Artist Boy
- Fourth and Fireworks
- This Is What Grown-Up Looks Like
- Three Years Down
- Four Years Later
- Sister Seal of Approval
- 22 Miles and Counting
- Twenty-Three and Nerdy
- Things I've Learned About My Boyfriend
- We're Doing This
- Meeting the In-Laws (Sort Of)
- DTR: Define the Ridiculousness
- New Year, New Me (But Like, Actually This Time)
2008 18 posts
- he drew our story
- Study Buddy FAIL
- Turkey Day Trials
- Game Night Introductions
- The 37-Minute Rule
- apartment chronicles
- The Napkin Sketch
- Musical Education
- About Last Night (Or: How to Argue About Music for 45 Minutes Straight)
- Twenty and Terrified (But Mostly Twenty)
- Last First Day Ever
- Senior Year Panic Mode: ACTIVATED
- summer grind mode: activated
- Built for This
- spring on the quad
- The Great Gecko Escape of 2008
- Anti-Valentine's Day (But Make It Cute)
- The Great Bang Disaster of 2008
2007 17 posts
- Tamales and Tradition
- finals week or how i learned to survive on coffee and spite
- home is where the tamales are
- Halloween Done Right
- why i do this
- silver and defiant
- Nineteen Candles
- supply closet confessions
- She Always Knows
- franklin street summer nights
- Three Weeks In: A Waitressing Update
- Still Standing (Barely)
- SURVIVOR: FINALS WEEK EDITION
- Study Group Drama (aka Why Boys Are Trash)
- I Looked Death in the Face (And Almost Joined Him)
- well, here goes nothing...
- Spring Break Throwback (aka Why Did I Think Low-Rise Jeans Were Cute?)