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“Just start writing,” someone once told me several years ago.

That thought has been swirling in my head over the last year+ and I’m so thankful for technology to make it possible to really: just start writing.

I started blogging the same year Instagram was born in 2010, and so much has changed since then, in all the ways. I blogged for six years, capturing lots of life with babies, first birthdays, holidays and life in Manhattan Beach, where our family spent its first six years. I retired my original blog - Paper{whites} - in 2016, and am ready for a fresh start to begin writing again.

As our family has grown up, moved, moved jobs, added a dog, opened small businesses, I’ve simplified in many ways, choosing less over more, which has opened up the time, space and resources to design a life with intention, and for me, that starts in the home.

So, welcome - and to some of you who were old blog readers, thank you and welcome back - I’m so happy to share this space with you, and hope you’ll visit often.