Today I had an unexpected treat. Normally on a Tuesday, Number 6 and 7 are home all day with me. But due to a schedule change, my dad drove up to the house, picked the two of them up, and brought them back to his house. For the entire day. Nap time and everything. And […]
Archives for January 2015
Weunited, and it feels so gooooood….
Number 6 can’t pronounce his r’s. It’s vewy cute, and I’m in no rush for him to learn. On Christmas he got a little stuffed turkey. And he named it. appropriately enough, “Turkey.” Which he pronounces Tokey. Last week, we brought Tokey to the gym with us. Against my better judgement, I let Number 6 take […]
Olive & Lucy of Oscawana Lake
A couple months ago I was contacted by a first-time children’s book author, asking if I would review his children’s e-book. I kind of suck at checking my emails, so it took me a while to get back to him. But once he told me he thought I was hilarious, well, I had to give […]
Just One Little Sniff
About eight years ago, when Number 3 was two years old and Number 4 was a little over one, we got one of those big swing sets from Costco. The kind with a climbing wall and a bunch of swings and a big blue slide and a playhouse over the top with a telescope and […]
A Fork in the Road
To catch you up to speed if you are new, Two years ago, after gaining weight with each pregnancy, weighing 50 pounds more than I did when I got married, and knowing that I was totally done with having kids, I decided enough was enough, and I lost a bunch of weight. I went from this: […]
Thank you.
Last week I get a message from a struggling mom, and then a couple days ago, I replied to her in this post. As soon as I published that post, I started checking the Facebook page, looking for helpful comments from readers. Initially, there were no comments. It took a few minutes for them to […]