When Your Head is Out of Sorts with Pregnancy Anemia Brain

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 My head is seriously out of sorts with pregnancy anemia lately. The Week of Fuzzy Brain    I have often heard people say that pregnancy is more difficult on the body as you get older, but I never experienced it until lately.  Joshua was my overall hardest pregnancy, to include excessive vomiting in the first trimester as well as shockingly bad sciatica pain in the third trimester.  Yet, that was my youngest pregnancy!    I was doing so great until […]

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My Experience with Pregnancy Anemia: Sleepiest Week Ever

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This week: Thursday night I came down with a head cold and fever (like my 4th cold this winter), but I powered through and we had a really good time at the Farm Park on Friday. By Saturday, I was so unusually exhausted and miserable, I just crashed.   I literally did not move from my chair until 11am.  Poor Alan had to take care of his regular responsibilities, while also helping me with mine.  As if he’s not stressed […]

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Fun Things to do in Fairfax County: Frying Pan Farm Park

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Frying Pan Farm Park, Fairfax County

Frying Pan Farm Park Today Alan took the day off work, and we all visited Frying Pan Farm Park.  Everyone had a good time, in spite of the ever-present chill.  They had farm animals, a blacksmith shop, a wagon ride, a carousel, and a playground. They have a nice playground, and of course the boys insisted on playing on the playground as soon as we got there. We felt like Caleb was really channeling his DaddyO in this fleece vest. […]

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When Toddlers Miss their Nap Time

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Today a very bad, bad, bad thing happened. (And for the sake of anyone new to reading my blog, you should know that I like to whine about my petty problems, as though they are actual problems.  Sometimes I just do this for dramatic effect….  ; ) In the world of raising toddlers or babies, your worst nightmare is a bad napper.  I’ve never had a bad napper on a regular basis, thank God!  I guess he knows I could never handle […]

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Just Call Me Aunt Bee. We all want to be appreciated.

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Today I left Alan with all three boys, ages 2 to 6, while I went to the chiropractor’s office and to Target.  I heard the sweetest, sweetest words when I got home. “It was….that kid…..no, not just him, that one too.  Oh my gosh.  April, please don’t leave me here alone with them again.” “Where’s Caleb?” “Huh?  Oh, I don’t know.  He’s fine.  At least he’s been entertaining himself!” BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Now, of course, Alan was JOKING about me not leaving him […]

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My 32nd Birthday: 24 Weeks Pregnant with My 4th Son

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Today’s Snow Day was pretty awesome, except that there was no snow to play in once the snowing stopped.  It snowed for about 18 hours straight, and yet it was too warm for accumulation past 11am.  This works out nicely though.  Everyone got to stay home, and yet Alan was able to safely run errands.  Plus tomorrow’s road conditions should be perfectly fine.  Happy birthday to me!   Ya’ll, today was thoroughly exhausting!  It seems like everyday is exhausting lately. […]

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The Squirrels in the Chimney Story

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creepy squirrels in the chimney story

Oh, I have a really crazy story about squirrels in our chimney to tell you today. While we thought that we had provided a safe path of escape for our chimney squirrel and had concluded that he was gone, this weekend we began to smell something in the basement that made us think otherwise….Ugh! That poor squirrel starved to death in our chimney. We tried everything to get him out safely, but he kept running back into the chimney, away […]

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