When Toddlers Miss their Nap Time

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.

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

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

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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