I’m officially 33 weeks with baby #3 (another girl, in case you didn’t see on Instagram!), and to be honest, I can hardly believe it. Even though this has been my roughest pregnancy in terms of symptoms and discomfort, I frequently joke that I keep forgetting I’m pregnant. Life is busy enough with Charlie and […]

Over the last year, more than a handful of people have jokingly referred to Maylis as a third baby. But actually… :) We are delighted to share that we’re adding a real third baby to our family this fall! Yes, it feels a little crazy to be preparing for a new baby in our first […]

Is it too late to wish you a happy 2022? My time and creative energy have been solely dedicated to Maylis and my family so far this year, but I don’t have any intention of taking Something Pretty down. Instead, my plan right now is to pop on every once in a while when inspiration […]

Heading into 2021, I thought this was going to be one of the years in which I blogged the most. A few short weeks later, though, I first spoke a business idea out loud to Dave, and from that conversation on, I’ve been head down pursuing it in almost every spare moment. I truly cannot […]

Without fail, every fall, I have the same flashback. It comes to me as I start dinner prep for our first meal of the season featuring butternut squash–usually roasted with red onions as a side to pork tenderloin or simmered on the stove with beef and pasta for this one-pan meal*. I set out a […]

I’m excited to share my fourth annual Catholic gift guide today! Every year that I’ve been curating this post (see 2020 here, 2019 here, and 2018 here), the search for products I love has gotten easier and easier. There are so many incredible artists, writers, creators, and innovators in the Church who are sharing their […]

Early in the summer, we ventured to our “new” library for the first time. (We were regulars at the library close to our old house, but since the libraries shut down so soon after we moved to our current house, it took us almost a year to scope out our new nearest branch!) On that […]

A few months after Charlie was born, I read How to Celebrate Everything one-handed on the Kindle app while nursing. In the part-memoir/part-cookbook, Jenny Rosenstrach shares the little, everyday rituals that color her family’s culture, from the recipes that automatically signify and celebrate birthdays, to the go-to mashed potatoes that brought comfort from middle school […]