Okay a little personal update to start — Teddy had his first full day of kindergarten yesterday and honestly I was completely surprised by my own emotional response?! It feels a little crazy that we have four children and our oldest is just now starting kindergarten so I know it’s time and he’s ready, but wow! I wasn’t expecting the tug at my heartstrings or the tears in my eyes as he walked into those big double doors alone for the first time. This huge piece of my heart just walking around outside my body, you know? Sending my love to other moms feeling their feels on the back to school roller coaster this week. 

No rest for the weary as tomorrow is Tucker’s third birthday, Tuesday is our wedding anniversary, and next week Peter and Tucker go back to preschool! I think we are all jonesing for the return to routine whether we’re old enough to verbalize it or not. 🙂 Trying to remind myself that the back to school chaos will quiet down soon enough and we’ll all settle back into a familiar rhythm, but if you find yourself drowning in class emails and sign-ups and medical forms and doctor’s appointments and school events, you are 1000% not alone! Below are some pretty things to treat yourself if you too could use a little retail therapy as you fill out your 97th piece of paperwork this week. Onward and upward! xx