You know how after you have a baby you also have a messy house and a poochy stomach and dark bags under your eyes for a while? Well, I'm just wondering when the "I just had a baby!" excuse expires. My house is still messy, my stomach still poochy and my bags as black as the (sleepless) night … [Read more...]
Molarization
My two year-old is teething. Badly.She's pushing three molars through and it's been a nightmare! Her sleep has been disrupted so we've been dealing with two to three night wakings (on top of my getting up with a little baby who is hungry at four o'clock in the morning), horrendous tantrums, and a … [Read more...]
Weird. But Good.
In the past few months, my two older girls have been slowly inching towards a better relationship. As Karenna, the two year-old, masters the English language and doesn't automatically revert to screaming and hair-pulling if she doesn't get her way, Avelyn has warmed to her. They have fun playing … [Read more...]
Picture This
I enjoy taking photographs of my kids. A few years ago, a good friend of mine who is a professional photographer, spent an afternoon showing me the manual functions of my Digital SLR camera. While I have nowhere near mastered the art of photography, my level of enjoyment has definitely gone up since … [Read more...]
Drive Me (Crazy).
Driving anywhere with my kids is an exercise in madness.See, we own a huge pick-up truck (since we have an apple orchard and need a massive rig to haul our fruit to the packing house each fall) and all three kids are packed into the same row of the cab. Three girls, duking it out.The eldest sits in … [Read more...]
New Year Ahead
I don't know about you, but I have high hopes for 2011. There is so much I plan to accomplish that I am simultaneously excited about it and crippled by a fear of failing at it all.Here are my goals:1. Quit chewing my fingernails and cuticles until they bleed. It's a gross, unhygienic habit that … [Read more...]
Blah.
I am in a post-Christmas fog. The tree is dropping dry needles all over the floor, there are six bags of shredded wrapping paper perched by the entry way waiting for recycling day, all of the gifts need to be organized and put away in proper places...and it must shock you greatly to hear that I … [Read more...]
Recipe For a Supermom
Do you ever have those days when the kids are fighting incessantly, the floor is getting dirtier by the minute, you're feeling extra fat and behind on everything on your to-do list? Yeah, me neither.Well, in the off-chance you might have a friend who has had a day like that, I have a little … [Read more...]
The Grandmother’s Curse
If my mother is coming for a visit, you can pretty much guarantee that our children will catch some sort of nasty virus (usually involving high fevers and copious amounts of barf) and they will be miserable the whole time she's here, I'll be a sleep-deprived mess, the house will totally go to pot … [Read more...]
Christmas Photos: Why Do I Even Bother?
I took all afternoon getting our girls dolled up for the photo shoot. Their has was combed (this is a rarity), they looked adorable in their matching cream cable-knit sweater dresses and shiny shoes, they had had the annual pep talk: "We're going to Wal-Mart and a nice lady is going to take your … [Read more...]
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