Click over to Hope & Grace to check out an interview in which I talk whether I "always knew" I wanted to be a mom, judgy strangers, that time I gave birth and totally lost it at my husband and mom, and (much) more.

 Aquazzura is KILLING IT with the tasseled shoes lately. (These are my favorites and I would like to wear them every day all spring and summer except I won't because children.)

 FYI: Ferndell artisanal coffee (the company dates back to 1862) is HELLA good (and has a swoon-worthy Instagram page).

Say hello to "Five Things," a new series on RG that I'm super excited about: I'm partnering with DRIVEN for Women - a site that features weekly profiles of incredible women doing incredible things in the world, exploring how they got where they are and revealing their brilliant and savvy advice.

Say hello as well to our first profile: Kelly Goldston, the VP of Marketing for plus-size fashion online retailer ELOQUII. Kelly started working for ELOQUII in the unlikeliest of ways: because she made a big return to the store, received a phone call from customer service, and impressed them so much with her observations about the brand that she was asked to talk to the CEO...which led to a job, and ultimately led to her position as VP of Marketing for the brand. Really.

Check out Kelly's five right-this-moment favorites below, and head over to DRIVEN to read the story of her unlikely - and amazing - career trajectory.

{ 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.