What’s in your car?
As I was trying to empty my mini-van yesterday of the things I don’t need to keep in there, I took casual inventory: one outfit for each kid one sweatshirt for each kid one pair of Froggy Boots one...
View ArticleAnyone ever seen this?
Gabriel woke up last Friday like this. His right ear was literally twice the size as the left, and bright red. He was quite pleased. He felt his ears with his hands, and without even looking in the...
View ArticleSo Close
I really was. I was so close this morning to having sorted out this whole camera/computer mess into a fairly reasonable short-term fix. I had my mom’s camera AND cable, inserted my picture card and...
View ArticleSometimes it’s a Toilet
Sometimes it’s a Toy Box. Mollie loves the toilet. She thinks the toilet is the best kept secret in the house and she bides her time, waiting for one of the 4 toilet users to forget and leave the lid...
View ArticleActual Spring Fever
The plague hit our house the week before Spring Break. We were on our way to the Crossings (with everyone else in Albany, coincidentally) on Sunday afternoon, and Gabriel announced that he needed to...
View ArticleA Little Belt Tightening
So, I’m guessing the “how are we going to pull off Christmas,” was a conversation happening in a lot of homes this year as the economy continued to dangle on the brinks. We had it a few times without...
View ArticleDoodle Baby
In all fairness, she was using the markers that came with her Doodle Bear. I question the sense of such toys, especially at moments like these. Coincidentally, there was a Doodle Stove, Sink and...
View ArticleBox Tops
Can I just say, on behalf of parents everywhere, and for the love of all things Holy, “Seriously?!” How did this become a thing? I’ll tell you how. Someone sat in a board room somewhere and said,...
View Article“Look Mommy ~ I fixed it!”
The upside to people being nasty in public, is that enough other people take notice and take a stand against it. In school anti-bullying training, we call that being a “come-along-sider.” So, thank...
View ArticleHow we really spent her first birthday
Starting Saturday morning, my three girls took 12 hour shifts throwing up. There was a 2 hour window Saturday afternoon when Mollie stopped and before Adeline started, when we decided to still try to...
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