Today is your last day of being three, something you’ve been counting down to for weeks, if not the entire year! You learned and grew a lot this year, including working on your sporting abilities, …but really realizing that it was much more fun to just sit and have girl time. Your need-for-organization-and-categorization (which you […]
O Lego Town of Bethlehem…
On the Saturday that I went into labor with Noah, Chris and Ali set out on an epic undertaking, combining Chris’ favorite Daddy activity with the Holiday Season… In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. And everyone went to their own town to […]
Christmas in Images.
I do hope to be back to my “regular” blogging schedule at some point in the near future, but there’s something about having major abdominal surgery plus complications (and having staples still in your belly from it – very chafing if you wondered), being in the hospital for five days, having a brand new member […]
The Rising Stars of the Christmas Story.
My Mom, who directs the Cubbies program at our church, decided to be a little overly ambitious this year. She decided to put on an entire Christmas play, as acted by about 20 three and four year olds. (She told me of her grand plans right after telling me that they usually cry at just […]
Phantom Baby.
This is one of those posts that’s going to either make you think that I’m a bit crazy, or you’re going to say “YES!!! I’ve experienced that! I’m glad I’m not the only crazy one!” (So, I guess either way, you’re going to think I’m crazy.) Oh well. Chris and I encountered a strange phenomenon […]
Reverse Child Abuse: A Plight Ignored.
Every parent suffers abuse from their child on a weekly, if not daily, and sometimes hourly (depending on the child or number of children involved in inflicting said abuse) basis. This plight goes far too unnoticed. It’s time that someone took a stand for Reverse-Child-Abuse and brought those issues to the forefront. Besides the constant […]
Now Hiring: Mom Caddie.
Men play golf. (Some men, anyway – not my husband. And some women, I know. Forgive the generalization for a moment.) And, men get caddies. (Some men, anyway – surely not every man that plays golf can afford to have another man follow him around all day while he leisurely plays a game.) But at […]
Setting Unrealistic Expectations Since 2007.
It’s a strange phenomenon that no matter how long you’ve been married and how many kids you have, if you add someone else’s kid to the mix, it always feels like you’re “playing house” all over again. We’ve been keeping one of our favorite two-year-olds in the world, Radford, all weekend, and Ali has blissfully […]
The Second Annual Holiday Shopping (Un)Guide.
It’s that time again…the time that all of the crazy baby catalogs in my mailbox have to move over to make room for all of the even crazier toy catalogs. I seriously just need to put a dumpster out front – the mailbox just isn’t cutting it. And, since I wrote you a shopping guide […]
A Plague Has Come Upon Us.
a mere four days… plus weather consisting of tornado warnings, high temperatures, rain, and intense humidity… turned this… into this. one of them seems to have acquired a terrible case of rotting beardface… and the other, a horrifically painful-looking throat infection, along a malady of behind-the-eye-socket fuzz. four days. all that work for FOUR DAYS. […]