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.

I'm not pregnant. Just figured it was a good idea to get that one out there right off the bat, since the fact that I'm thinking about baby names - and this 2014 photo - may lead you to believe otherwise.

Awhile back I posted my Top 10 Favorite Baby Names for Boys and Top 10 Favorite Baby Names for Girls, and in the months since I have had a stunning number of friends either get pregnant or give birth. As a result, the subject is one I've done a lot of chatting about lately, so I thought I'd add to those lists...mostly because MAN are baby names ever fun to talk about.

5 MORE FAVORITE BABY NAMES FOR GIRLS