welcome to caught redheaded

As a little girl, I spent many years separated from my mother. Long after, I would learn that she was battling addictions and past traumas I was then too young to comprehend. In light of those circumstances, I spent my time split between my grandparent’s and dad’s home...

In January of 2013 I became a mother for the first time. Leading up to that point, I was considered high risk for potential heart complications. Two times during my pregnancy I experienced very rapid tachycardias. While this was something to which I was accustomed, pre...

I wanted to try something new for this post where all the content is located within a graphic that can be shared more readily and in full than a text post. Enjoy!

As our second pregnancy slowly came to its final weeks, Travis and I were constantly weighing whether our one car family could spare Travis whenever he had appointments or whether I should be driving myself to work. On Friday, April 28, I joked with coworkers about how...

I hope you sang the title of this post to the tune of "Under Pressure" like I did, but if not that's OK, too. 

Holy respiratory illness, ya'll. About three weeks ago I started feeling a bit under the weather and came down with the same cold plaguing most everyone else I...

Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you I have a serious love affair with all things beauty. I spent about half a decade working for two major natural beauty brands, and thus began an affair with skin care and cosmetics that is not easily given up. Of course, as...

Sometime last year the Erin Condren Life Planner ads started populating en masse on my Instagram feed. With their endless options for customized covers, varied weekly layouts, and the ability to add more than they typical calendar's worth of months, Erin Condren had me...