Wrangler Dani

You know how Mother-in-Law jokes, go, right? It seems that everybody has a horror story, a difficult situation or a trying circumstance with their in-laws. Families have their own social

There are many things that have been frustrating (or maybe, just unrealistically expected, if we’re fair) about this move. I kinda thought we’d finally make the break and voila! a

I’m always an early celebrator of Christmas. The first frosts and speckles of snow (or, in California, afternoon fogginess) have me daydreaming of homemade cookies and shiny bows. But my

I’m a tried and true American girl. The National Anthem gets me choked up on a regular basis and I will probably be one of those spunky old ladies with

My sister-in-law posted this and asked her readers to play along. Since I am a writing-prompt junkie, I readily complied. Here we go: making: Messes and to-do lists and piles

Last night, I realized that this weekend is Labor Day and we don’t have any awesome plans. To be fair, our lives have been a little insane lately, so it’s

Our house, the one we’re trying to buy, has the hiccups. Depending on how this story turns out, it might be a hilarious, endearing sidenote about a lengthy process and

We are in escrow on a house. (YAY!) Our bank statements got sent to some random dude by our lender by mistake (BOO!). It was our last day in Orange

Sometimes, you can feel very alone in the world. Sometimes it feels like everyone else is dealing with challenges with suave and pizazz, and you’re cringing along, sobbing at commercials

When we were moving into our new apartment, boxes were exploding all over the house, crumpled paper littered our new carpet and questions were coming from every direction: does this