…my cousin’s darling daughter. Last week she was diagnosed with leukemia. And it’s hit me hard to think how quickly life can change. To go in one day from trying to swim through the often molasses-like mundane-ness of every day life to being thrown into a new world where blood transfusions and chemotherapy are thrust…
Here are a couple “clicks” for you to enjoy this Good Friday (although they’re not really related to Good Friday, but hey, they are pretty darn good anyway). Click here for the “Easter story cookies” I was talking about a couple posts ago. Click here to find out about the really great “Motherhood Retreat” my…
post edit note: THANK YOU so much for all the wonderful Easter ideas. I’ll be hard at work trying to figure out what to incorporate. And yes, the crib is now gone. I’m glad someone could use it and I wish I had a bunch more (because that would mean I had a bunch more…
I have the worst memory known to man, which sometimes leads me to wish I had more pictures with my Mother growing up (this really is my last tangent on Motherhood pictures). She is one of my greatest heroes and I know her only as a teenage-to-present mother since I can’t remember the rest (the…
We’re trying to go whole-grain around here. If Dave and I have it our way, little by little these kids are gonna start begging for flax-seed and cracked wheat. So we thank our lucky stars over and over again for the whole wheat pancakes Dave’s sister Julie whipped up for us one day. They were SO…
(aside from my six fav. people of course) 1) my Biolage thermal action hair stuff. I don’t know how well it really works, but it smells so darn good I use it anyway, and am tempted to spray it all over me for perfume. 2) my plastic plates from Target. It’s funny that I’ve reached…
Well, the “every-second-of-the-day” family party for Claire that Grace invited us all to here was a wild success. I think Claire had her best birthday yet even with no friends involved. I’m always amazed with how little kids really need to have a fun birthday. Honestly, the only present she even told her grandparents and…