twinkle twinkle little star

Around 7:00 pm on August 4, 2017, I realized that the following day I would no longer have a 1-year old baby in my house.  I would bathe and put to bed a 1-year old on Friday night and greet a 2-year old in the morning.  I tried to dismiss my sentimental thoughts, but I…

You Know You’re Right

I love being right.  I love vindication.  However, there are times that I wished my 6th-sense mommy intuition was wrong. At Miriam’s daycare, parents send food/snacks for their children until they are roughly 1.5 years old.  I am not an organic/clean food sort of consumer/parent, so practically none of the food that I sent to…

Dedicated to the One I Love

Time goes faster with each additional child.  It seems like just yesterday that I was pregnant with Miriam!  Then one day I woke up and Miriam was no longer a newborn, Sarah was sleeping in a toddler bed and potty trained, and Rachel was on the verge of being a “tween”.  YIKES!  How did this happen?…

I’m so tired…

It’s hard to know what to write about when you are loaded with endless material.  If I ever thought that completely focusing on home life was boring or limiting, whoo, I was WRONG!  There is a bit of a routine that develops, which might become stale after sometime, but with kids that just isn’t possible.…

Turn! Turn! Turn!

  Miriam and I have been home from the hospital for one week!  Things are going well, except for the constant screaming from Sarah Amelia….  I haven’t said a lot on social media during this last (at least that is the plan) pregnancy.  Heck, I was  five months pregnant before telling family and almost six…