Have You Heard Pandora?
It's my motivation during the day. Because sometimes I need some motivational music to get me off my duff and get stuff done. Pandora.com is, and I hesitate to say this, because it's quite the understatement, an online radio, of sorts. Since 2000, it's been hard at...
Recipe Swap: Dinners – Fancy Schmancy
Here's a meal I've made... twice? Maybe three times. It's, in my opinion, a culinary masterpiece. (It involves making your own sauce.) (Which I'm sure many of you do on a daily basis.) (So maybe this meal won't be all Fancy-Schmancy for you.) But, due to the time...
The Natural Mommy Ponders Makeup And Baby Soap
Before shopping CVS and Walgreen's I didn't wear much makeup. I couldn't afford it. All the ladies in my bible study, MOPs group, church did. And they wore it well. I felt a bit like a hillbilly grade schooler transplanted into an O.C. high school. Then I started...
Meet-and-Greet Monday: Easter Edition!
Sometimes I feel my Meet-and-Greet Monday posts fly under the radar. Maybe no one really cares to see pictures of the most beautiful children ever. And then my brother-in-law yells at me. And I feel loved. Step Two in Dying Easter Eggs (after hard-boiling them, of...
Our Very First Just-Our-Family Holiday
It caught me completely off-guard, by surpise, I did not see it coming. I just assumed my mom would come. And she would make it a magical Easter. Just like all those magical Easters of my youth. Where the eggs hid themselves. The baskets filled themselves with...
If You Would Be So Kind As To Enter This Giveaway…
Phil & Ted's Sport Buggy with Double Kit Retail Value: $429.95! (I would never pay that much for a stroller.) (Which makes it SUCH A GOOD GIVEAWAY.) Here's a snippet: The sport has a sleeker feel thanks to new tailoring and great new additions such as a ratcheting...
We Have A Nemesis
Bad squirrel. Bad. In all fairness, though, Olivia did leave her babydoll outside. For many hours. With bread stuffed in her mouth.
I Don’t Want To Write It
It's coming dangerously close to that time of year when I have to spew out maternal-hormone-soaked drivel about my babies getting older. I don't want to do it. Because I don't want to believe it.
Recipe Swap: Dinners – Family Favorites
Oh. My. Goodness. This was hard. I asked my husband for a week straight what his favorite meal was. He had no answer. Or if he did have an answer, it changed daily. Or hourly. And sometimes even minutely. *Glee* He likes everything I make. His favorite answer tonight,...
A Tea Cup, A Sock, And … And … There Was One More…
And, because potty training is FUNNY, here are a few stories from the past few days. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Over Josh's spring break, we went to visit his family in Missouri. They have new carpet. Olivia is potty training. We were understandably worried and...