Chris can come up with the best ideas for my blog. Both Baby Tips and The Moment of Truth: Special Edition were his ideas, and I adored them from the moment he told me about them. It doesn’t happen often, but when he says “I might have a good idea for a blog post”, I […]

OK – to write this post, I have to ‘fess up to something very shameful for a stay at home Mom to admit. I use a maid service once a month. I know, I know. I am a failure as a homemaker. But I DO perform all of the upkeep cleaning – they just come […]

Today we discovered today that 9 A.M. is a wonderful time to go to the zoo. All of the animals are so much more awake, interactive, and active!! The monkeys were howling, the flamingos were talking to everyone who walked by, the kangaroos were actually near the fence, the tiger was right up against the […]

You know how girls can carry on about seven conversations at once, and guys are just completely unable to follow the different trains of thought all intermingled? Well, Chris actually lost me in multiple conversations the other night. Wednesday evening, I was reading the comments on my Guantanamo post, and I told Chris “Oh yay! […]

We went back to the Botanical Gardens today to let Ali run around and play. Ali loved smelling all of the roses and playing in the water! There were two weddings going on, and one of them most definitely caught my attention. They had about 58 people in the wedding party, and they were all […]

Why is it that toddlers are more clumsy when they are sick with colds? It seems that they fall over more easily and they run into things more often. So that makes them cry, and of course since they have a cold, crying makes them leak out of every facial orifice possible. Eyes are more […]

We had a great night at our small group bible study tonight. Despite a much smaller small group than usual, due to babies and vacations and kidney stones and out of town company, we didn’t use that as an excuse to not get down to business. No way. We went late into the night working […]

So yesterday afternoon, I wanted to play with Ali. Or read to her. Or something interactive. But she would have none of it. She ignored all of my attempts, would crawl out of my lap after the first phrase of a book, and kept walking off to the kitchen to play with the doors. So […]

One of my work computers has been dying for quite some time. It isn’t without cause – it is old as computer dirt – I think I’ve had it for 8 out of my 10 years at Slappey. But as many times as they have tried to get me to take a less antiquated computer, […]

I always feel like my videos of Ali are way too “Mommy Bloggish”, but every time I put one up, at least one person always says I need to post videos more often. So, for friends and family who are out of town, and anyone else who enjoys videos, here are two from yesterday at […]