spring wrap-up

(Just had to put that picture first…love that Lu.)I’m calling this my spring-wrap up because I guess spring is pretty much over when the weather forecast on my phone has nothing but big, yellow suns stretching across each week with temperatures reaching near and above 100 degrees. We’ve had a bunch going on lately that…

“focus” for month #4

First of all, wow, thanks for all the “dog” info! This is my conclusion (if Dave agrees): we will 1) have the kids do a bunch of their own research with help from those great comments and from the internet, 2) have them write up a proposal for the best kind of dog they think…

spring break

Spring break is almost over. Shucks, school starts again on Monday. But man alive we have had a great time here:…with four of our kids impressing us on the slopes.I have hundreds of pictures to sort through as we have jam-packed our time with family and friends, but for now I’ll leave you with this…

another book give-away

Another wonderful blogger (isn’t it kind of funny we are called “bloggers”? …I find that word funny…maybe that’s because I’m way over-tired right now) is doing A Mother’s Book of Secrets book give-away here. This is actually a girl I go way back to junior high days with. We lost touch and have recently found…

first annual vision walk

After four and a half tantrums from Lucy (didn’t she know we were doing this for her??) we arrived at our first vision walk bright and early. The kids decided we needed to have our matching t-shirts from our reunion a few years ago for two reasons: 1) they are the color of Lucy’s eyes,…

vision walk & luncheon invite

Together as a family we are doing our first annual “Vision Walk” to help raise money to fight blindness this weekend. We’ve been gathering funds and preparing for this for a while, and I just wanted to write it here just in case anyone else local is wanting to come be on our “team.” (There’s…

photo contest

Today I feel compelled to announce the “Power of Moms” motherhood photo contest going on right now. Here are my reasons: 1) This is my sister’s website and I love her and I think she’s got a good idea going on here. 2) Photos of Motherhood are, in my humble opinion, priceless. Something that catches…

good news…

Starting tomorrow until Saturday, there will be this awesome boutique going on in town: …and they’ll have “A Mother’s Book of Secrets” (the book my Mom and I wrote) for sale there! I know how great this boutique is because they already did this same type of thing last month and my girls and I…

I.W.A.N.

(I. Want. A. Newborn.) I know we’re done. We hit our limit with five kids. I’m flying by the seat of my pants most days, and each night I fall into bed wishing I had more time for each of them…and trying to console Dave that I really think this is the month Lu’s going…