Callie Feyen

On my goodness my Listen To Your Mother performance is up! Check it out here. Superbuns for life.  Let’s make it a hashtag!

There’s the top of the apartment building on Lake street in Oak Park; the one that’s really more of a tower and you can see most of the Chicago west suburbs from. I was up there one July Fourth with my friend. We’d been on a mission that night to find as many fireworks as possible, not an easy project… View Post

Melted butter and crumbled graham crackers. Perfectly sweet strawberries to be mixed with cranberry juice and dolloped on top of  the graham cracker crust. Steamy cement sidewalks and soggy shady trees. Summer smells like chlorine and Coppertone. Summer smells like salted dough mixed with peanut butter and jelly, apple juice and an open window. It smells like early morning dew… View Post

Sometimes I get a little nervous when I write a post having to do with reading or writing activities,  because I think you think I’m interested in educating my children.  I’m not. I save that for their teachers. What I am interested in is keeping my kids quiet. Besides, I don’t do well when I try to instruct Hadley and… View Post

{loving} our new living room and all our orange accents. It’s not finished quite yet (don’t tell Jesse) but every morning when I walk down the stairs all that orange makes me so happy. See all those magazines and such on the couch? That’s my Pinterest board. Only it’s a hard copy of it. I used this stuff called paper… View Post