I think I may have misplaced mine sometime in the past few days. I just haven’t had my usual inspiration for blogging. I asked Chris if maybe he accidentally swept it in with some other stuff while we were straightening up, but he doesn’t remember seeing it. I’m just hoping that Ali didn’t find it […]

OK, so I promised the other day that I would reveal the reasons that budgeting is FREEING, not constricting. Obviously, I’m biased. I LOOOOVE budgets, and reconciling, and logging, and measuring trends and percentages. This is true fun for me. But I am going to try to think like a normal human being, putting aside […]

Every adolescent boy is insatiably curious what a girl keeps in her purse, mainly because it is drilled into their head that they are NEVER to look in one. This command is for good reason, of course. Then, when they grow up and get married, their curiosity of the purse turns into fearful respect. I’ll […]

I know, I know, I know. You’re all calling all of the emergency rooms around town as I type trying to figure out what trauma must have happened to me to skip a WHOLE DAY of blogging, right? Although I DO seem to frequent emergency rooms this year, no worries – I’m fine – our […]

I REALLY enjoyed reading all of your quirks last week!! You did a great job (If you didn’t read the comments to the quirks post, I highly recommend it – everyone’s quirks made me laugh quite heartily!!). So since I had further thoughts on quirks, I thought I’d open up the quirk box again. I […]

Oops. Sorry for spamming my own blog last night in my excitement over 5 Minutes for Mom‘s latest photo contest. I didn’t realize they had a rule about just one entry per person, as I have entered multiple photos before and made it to the finals – I just must not have gotten caught!! :D […]

OK, OK, OK – I know I got carried away and entered SEVEN entries into 5 Minutes for Mom‘s photo contests – but I DO love photos, I love 5 Minutes for Mom, and so naturally I love their photo contests, and I just couldn’t help myself!! (blush). Hopefully they won’t disqualify me for being […]

This is a photo for 5 Minutes for Mom’s summer contest! “Explorer” is the middle name of all toddlers!! There is no better place to explore than outside. Especially when flowers are blooming and butterflies are flying and bees are buzzing!

This is an entry for 5 Minutes for Mom‘s wonderful summer fun photo contest!! Toddlers are funny creatures. They absolutely can LOVE each other, but they will still play “near” each other, rather than “with” each other. These two little girls are best friends. They were in toddler heaven getting to go on a beach […]

Here’s a Picture for 5 Minutes for Mom‘s summer fun contest! This is a picture of Ali sitting in the ocean for the first time (with Daddy behind her and Mommy in front of her, of course!). She loved the lapping waves and the fun of splashing. This picture encapsulates her absolute love of water!