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…
I want to start taking a little verbal “snapshot” of life at the beginning of each new year. I sort of did it last year here without actually conscientiously meaning to, but now I want to make it a tradition. I write a bunch of feelings and events on this blog, but I don’t write…
It is devastating to be told that your child will likely lose her vision some day. The pricking of hot tears behind your eyelids when you think about it creates uncomfortable pressure on and off…pressure that I think will never really go away. When Lucy was diagnosed with Bardet-Biedl last February, “Blindness,” first and foremost,…
Boy howdy. I’m still wiping the sweat from my brow from all the Halloween hoopla last week. I’m not going to lie, Halloween is no piece of cake…especially when you have four girls to doll up multiple times. And to be honest, I was pretty much so tired and overwhelmed with everything else going on…
I sent FOUR little children off to school today. Ok, I take that back…I sent one large child to JR. HIGH (no eigth-graders were going to pick on that tall kid…I hope) and three medium-sized girls to elementary school. And I had to remind them for the bazillionth time that yes, they’re growing, but they’ll…