MisAdventures at 32 Weeks Pregnant …..Embarrassments and Getting Stuck in a Window

What an unbelievable day we had! Hilarious pregnant-lady-stuck-in window story

  What. a. morning. Before I tell you this, you must first envision me 32 weeks pregnant.  Okay, it looks a little like this: and that was actually a couple of weeks ago…. So each day is something of a work out anyway, but this morning was……..especially special…. 1st the walk to school was a little rough due to constant false labor contractions.  Don’t worry, they don’t really hurt, and once I quit walking they were gone. It was “walk […]

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The Importance of The Day of Rest

Sunday is the Lord’s Day here at our house. This is the day that we go to church, and ideally this is also the day we finally get some quiet rest at home.  Isn’t it annoying when organizations try to take that restful day away from you with ideas of work you can do instead??  Bleh.  I was afraid this was going to be one of those kind of Sundays, as both Alan and I had meetings to attend at church, […]

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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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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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