Derby Wharf Lighthouse

One month into winter, seven more to go. I am going stir👏crazy👏 and we haven’t even made it to February.

Finding balance has been tricky recently. On one hand I know these sweet infant days are fleeting, and I feel as though we should be soaking up time with her at home during quiet winter weekends. On the other, Sunday nights keep showing up leaving us wondering if we did absolutely anything with ourselves over the past two days, apart from laundry, Netflix, and a CVS run. If that.

So, we packed ~~our life away~~ a diaper bag last Sunday and drove up to the trusty North Shore of MA, where we used to daytrip so often pre-baby.

Seeing as it took us ~~one~~ three hours to get our act together and out of the house, it’s sort of a stretch to call this a day trip, as opposed to a lighthouse tour + some food stops (highly recommend The Hawthorne’s Sunday Jazz Brunch, tea at Jolie Tea Company, and hanger-induced Taco Bell on the way home). Feels good to get back to my roots though. Throwing on some Free People and dragging my husband, and now child, to the literal edges of the coast to take photos in front of glorified traffic control centers.

Derby Wharf Lighthouse (ahem, Light Station) is just outside of downtown Salem, and sits on a wharf jutting into the harbor that separates the spooky from Marblehead. ~~Slightly~~ ok a lot less impressive than most lighthouses we have visited over the years, but it kind of grew on me, ya know?

I ordered these fleece-lined Tretorn sneakers online and stared at them for approximately nine days trying to decide if they were a keep or return. Super glad I went with keep. I guess it’s the whole mom thing, but I’ve turned into a ~~crocs~~ sneaker person this year. The fleece lining on these makes them winter-friendly.

I’m wearing the Gal Meets Glam Annelise Coat which is unfortunately allllmost sold out, but there are so many other sweet options in the Gal Meets Glam coat sale. Jolie is another pastel cutie.