{ Go-Gratitude bracelet (a gift from reader Jaime); glam | camp cuff ring }

I don't think I've missed a day of posting more than once or twice in the six years that I've been blogging. It's because of my mom: if I don't have a post up by 9AM PST, I am virtually guaranteed an email: "What's wrong? No post?" (It's not because she's actually worried; it's because she's eating a donut at her desk and wants something to read.)

I didn't post yesterday. (And, as it turns out, people other than my mom totally noticed, which surprised me and made me feel kind of great.) I had a full day of meetings, and when I wasn't at meetings I was chasing an extremely active toddler around my parents house, trying to keep her from destroying things, and during my two hours of in-front-of-the-computer time (nap time) I was working on a new proposal. And then it was nighttime, and I totally could have sat down and written...except I decided to go eat cheese and drink wine with my dad instead. I miss him a lot.

I took this photo on Valentine's Day 2011, the last Valentine's Day of our just-us-two family. I had just found out I was pregnant maybe three days earlier, and put on a tight minidress because I thought maybe I wouldn't get many chances to wear that particular item in the coming months (spoiler: literally never wore the thing again). But I wanted to post a little "Happy Valentine's Day!" photo on RG and was paranoid that somebody would notice my five-weeks-pregnant "bump" (you don't have a bump at five weeks pregnant), so I put on a leather jacket and leaned forward into the camera and tried to be all sneaky about it.

I was SO HAPPY. You can see it in that picture, I think.

We were broke and it was cold and Kendrick had to stay a little late at work, so we decided to just meet at Gino's, a little Italian place - really more of a pizzeria - down the street for dinner. We sat at a cozy corner table and ate baked ziti and drank Diet Cokes and talked about our baby-to-be (still, at that point, a secret virtually nobody but the two of us and our doctor knew) and I felt like I was floating.

 Click over to I Want To Be Her for a fun interview in which I talk my five favorite finds of the moment, including the best-smelling candle ON THE PLANET (I mean that), footwear that I surprised myself by wearing quite literally into the ground, and the ultimate tired-eyes pick-me-up.

 Here is the blouse that will absolutely make your spring/summer wardrobe. (It is expensive. It might just be worth it.)

 "To be honest, a peek inside my mind most days would probably look like X-Wings and TIE Fighters," responded every husband in the world. (Mom's Bedtime Doodle Shows The Thoughts Of A Multi-Tasker, via Today.)

Remember these books?!?! Hello #nostalgia.

On Saturday morning, I did a reading of a few Roger Hargreaves books to benefit Milk & Bookies and the Boys & Girls Club of America - the children who came to the reading brought books to be distributed to the local club. Similar readings were held at Gap locations all over the country that day because the store just released a collection of (adoooooorable) Little Miss and Mr. Man-themed clothing. They tricked out the events with little thematic cookies and coloring stations and such, and it was all kinds of cute and just the best way to start a weekend ever.