My Search for the Perfect Jeans

Let’s face it:  when you’re a SAHM, jeans are pretty much your dress clothes.  Catch me at home, and I’m wearing yoga pants, but put me in public, and I go digging for my blue jeans. Warning to my three most faithful readers:  Alan, Dad, and DaddyO:  this post really is about pants.  I’m so sorry.   Actually, let me stop right here and acknowledge that my FAVORITE pants of ALL time are neither jogging pants nor blue jeans:  New […]

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John David: 6 Months

Joshua, Caleb, Daniel, and John David all at 6 months old   Somewhere during that whole Christmas schmorgasborg,  John David turned 6 months old!  Oh, he is such a SWEET, sweet, sweet little thing.  I would say he favors his brothers, wouldn’t you??   I was so excited to finally figure out how to make that collage!  I learned about picmonkey.com from a fellow blogger:  www.doofydizee.com.  Her name keeps coming up on here!  I promise I’m not stalking you, Di!  She […]

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Amusing Kids Quotes

Alan took both boys out to shoot BB guns over Christmas. Alan said that while Joshua wasn’t holding it right at all, he hit his target dead on.   A dad taking his boys out to shoot.  That’s a tradition as old as time.  I guess originally it would’ve been the dad taking the boys out to use sticks and bows and arrows and the like.  Either way, the bonding and learning is the same.     They were both […]

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New Year’s Check Up

Goal:  Be anywhere near as happy as Dan…That’d be great! As I wrote in a previous post, my goal for 2014 is to chill.  I want to calm down, enjoy my children, and not get all worked up about a bunch of stuff that doesn’t even matter all that much!   I was doing pretty great on day one, but then January 2nd hit, and Alan went back to work.   I don’t think ‘calm’ or ‘happy’ would be the […]

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The World of my 2 Year Old

This was SO EXCITING, ya’ll.  Now that JD can sit and play with toys, Daniel is beginning to view him as a buddy.  : )  They played in Dan’s room together (as in close by, simultaneously playing) for 30 minutes today.  Daniel was having a ball putting Lightning McQueen in and out of the Mac trucks while JD LOVED the shape sorter.  He kept grabbing it, shaking it, and throwing it.     Dan has three months left of being […]

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Slowing Down: Getting Old or Just Exhausted???

Happy New Year!!!   So is 2014 off to a good start for ya?   Our day wasn’t too bad.  For starters, I slept until after 9am this morning.  Whoot!!  That kind of made me feel behind from the get-go, though.  Isn’t that ridiculous?  Remember when you could sleep in with no guilt whatsoever???  Nope.  No, I actually don’t.  Even when I was a kid, if I slept later than my dad felt was appropriate, I would be teased mercilessly […]

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Road Trip Success!!

  Don’t you just love the whole “New Year” thing?  I do.  I’ve loved the idea of a clean slate for as long as I can remember.   2013 was one of our harder years, just adjusting to the new baby, and I just wasn’t well for a while there.  The baby fog is lifting, though, and I’m feeling down right normal now!  I’m actually enjoying talking to people again, laughing when appropriate, and even getting stuff done!  Having a […]

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Our Nightmare Before Christmas

Let me tell you a story about the time we had our own real life nightmare before Christmas. There are times when things just don’t go the way that you had hoped.  Embarking on a looong car trip with four children is a foolish brave thing to do. It all began around 10pm the night before we left.  I walked into Dan’s room to get something, and I noticed he had a very wet sounding snore.  “Oh no,” I thought. Around […]

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I hate the pressure of Christmas.

hilarious wrapping job

 I love Christmas.  Nothing makes me more happy than arranging Christmas decorations, baking cookies, taking road trips with the kids, and shopping in crowded malls! Wait. That’s not true.  No, I don’t.  No, I really really don’t.     Not once this year have I said any of those things.    Okay, so yeah, I’m a bit of a Scrooge.  I hate the pressure of Christmas. –Crowded malls make me hot, like literally sweaty. I get overwhelmed and confused by […]

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The Baby!

  We just love our 19 pound 4 month old.  He is just a great big ball of kissable goodness.  Unfortunately, our kissable bundle suddenly decided to stop sleeping through the night two weeks ago. He also caught a cold two weeks ago, a cold that isn’t getting any better.  His nose is still runny, runny, runny.  He’s been to the doc twice.  They can’t do anything for him.    Yes, I got a big bulb sucker, and I use […]

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