WELCOME TO THE BLOG!

I know what you're thinking...another blog?!

But, hopefully, this is not JUST another blog!

I started a personal/lifestyle/mom blog a few years ago when my first daughter was born. I LOVED it. Writing was like therapy for me as I was navigating motherhood for the first time. It kind of fell off as she got older, and I think I have posted once, maybe twice, since my youngest was born (imagine that). I am finding that I gravitate to clients who are also navigating motherhood in a similar phase, so I am hoping to bridge the gap with this blog - motherhood meets design!

Rendering of my youngest daughter's nursery.

More About Me

I am in my mid 30’s and gushingly happily married to the man of my dreams, Sam. I am a mom to our beautiful daughters Piper Penelope (almost 4) and Devyn Delilah (almost 2). Throughout the first few months of motherhood, as every mom does, I endured an emotional rollercoaster of pure love, affection, adoration, exhaustion, anxiety, fear, stress, guilt, grief, depression, loneliness, solitude…you name it, I felt it. One smile from my little PopTart or a squeeze from my man was usually enough to snap me out of anything depressing. Between those moments, I found myself scouring the internet for someone to relate to, someone to justify my emotions, someone to tell me that what I was feeling was ok and that I wasn’t ALONE. Some days I struggled with this more than others. As moms, we hold so much in on a daily basis in fear of seemingly falling apart (at least I do). Most days I don’t have my sh*t together, but I certainly want the world to think I do. I'm supposed to be the one who has it all, right? Maybe if the world believes it, I will believe it and it will be true! I can run a successful design business all while being the perfect mom and the perfect wife, right?

WRONG! Well, sort of. If you shift your perception of perfection, you can!

Motherhood is hard, like, really f*ing hard. And I want you to know that you are NOT ALONE! No judgements, no guilt, no grief will be given here. I’m excited to share my experiences with you, in hopes that you will do the same in return, or at least take a breath in knowing that it’s ok to be honest with yourself and with the world. It’s ok to acknowledge that motherhood is not all rainbows and unicorns, especially if you add owning and operating a successful interior design business into the mix!

So, I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the TRUTH, so help me God, and I hope you will join me on this journey! I also promise to share tips and tricks to keeping your sanity through design and organization, so stay tuned!

XOXO

Cali