We marched into Easter weekend right on the tail of the wedding, so I was kind of grasping at straws to be prepared (gosh, my “one word” for this year: prepare, sure is a big one, and still so much work to do on that sucker). But you know what? Turns out you don’t actually…
It is overwhelming to be a mother at Christmas-time. So much to gather and prepare and so many thoughts to organize in my brain. Every year it makes me appreciate my mother exponentially more. How did she calmly and quietly do so much, never asking for praise or acknowledgement? I don’t remember any grumpiness or…
When Lucy gets into something, she really gets into something. I’m not sure what got her on her Hamilton kick a couple years ago, but it’s been a long-lasting one. I honestly don’t think there’s been a day that’s gone by where she doesn’t have that soundtrack blasting in her room or in the kitchen….
We had one perfectly exquisite family day when Dave and I returned home from the Dominican (I’m reading Anne of Green Gables with Lucy and I think I need to adopt some of Anne’s flowery words to describe this day…it was that good:) One day to soak all our people up (I’m including Lar in…
It’s weird that nearly a month into January it already feels weird to write that “2018” up there in the title. It’s like it was a century ago or something! Christmas was a good one…I think 🙂 I still feel like I was in such a post-wedding-blur that I’m really, really glad I got pictures…
A while back a blog reader wrote asking about traditions that make Easter special in our family. She mentioned she noticed we have a lot of traditions going on during holidays, and asked about our Easter ones. This resonated with me because I’ve asked the same question. Over and over. What are we doing with…
The Easter Bunny pulled through with the string once again. This time Bo got her own string too… …which resulted in much glee from the girls…Bo being one of them. She was so excited about that yarn she could hardly stand it and kept getting tangled up in everyone else’s until we had to just…
Santa found us. He left his squiggly writing like always, except this time it was even more authentic. (Remember my dad was in town visiting…) And not until 7:15 did we get woken up by their ruckus of caroling coming from this room: These girls were pretty excited. Here they are lined up to go…
I wrote about Christmas Eve (my very favorite part of Christmas) back HERE. But Christmas was pretty great too. Our biggest Christmas gift this year to our kids was that we packed up on Christmas Day and headed out on our last (last of the “lasts” 😉 family trip with Max. But Santa still found…