We put the Christmas tree up on Saturday. We (meaning I) kept it pretty simple this year and didn’t even put EVERY.SINGLE ornament on the tree. Since our entire living room is 18 inch tiles I bought a VERY large piece of felt to put under the tree and am hoping (and praying) that it…
Laughter That Makes Tea Come Out of Your Nose
As we approach the holidays I’ve been thinking about my family. And when I say “my family” I mean my parents and my brothers. The people I grew up with, the ones who raised me and that I was raised with. I cried like a child earlier at the preview episode of the show Find…
Yesterday I…
* Pumped over 20 ounces of breast milk * changed 8 or so diapers * did a load of laundry (wash and dry – no, it’s not folded yet) * made dinner (okay frozen pizza and veggies, but still, we ate) * read a few blogs and commented when possible * baked Halloween Blondies (recipe…
WW – A Place Where There Were Pumpkins
On Saturday we took the family to a local church that was hosting a little fall carnival and pumpkin “patch” (or as I say, pumpkin staging area…). They had a bounce house, bake sale, hot dogs, some farm animals to admire (no petting!) and a pumpkin decorating area. Oh and maze that was muddy but…
My Life, It is Blessed
I think I failed to mention that when I was sick last week Tim was out of town. He had a 3 day/2 night business trip to another town in Louisiana and although I wished he’d been here, we were well taken care of by my MIL (thank God for her!!) and in retrospect I’m…
WW – Mothers & Daughters
My mom got pretty attached to Baby K when she was here last week. As she was leaving she urged me to send her lots of pictures (she doesn’t look at the blog that often) and we both fought back tears. I was so very happy to share my daughter with her, a time I…
My Endorsement Post for Ceramic Floors While Raising Small Children (well except when they hit their heads on them…)
So. We were on our own come Friday afternoon when my parents drove away. Ok, done talking about that before the tears well up. Anywho. Saturday morning we had to go back to the hospital to do a blood draw on Baby K because her pediatrician was concerned about her billirubin levels (jaundice) and she…
Yesterday’s Pie Made Today
My mother and father are here until Friday afternoon and have been a great help since the baby was born. They’ve been driving the boys to and from school and mom has been cooking, baking and doing laundry. As well as helping with Baby K. Yesterday as I passed through the always clean when mom…
Random at its Best
Watching Grey’s makes me want to visit Seattle, and Oregon and Boston and Maine and Chicago (again) and Montana and Niagra Falls and Toronto and all kinds of other North American places I have yet to go or have visited too briefly. Don’t ask me why, it just does. Does anyone else visualize themselves “picking…
My Granny Had Moxie
My Granny had Moxie*Oh yes She didI knew this facteven as a kid She could kill a snakewith her cane**And act like shewas never in pain She always stood up forwhat she believedAnd was so thankfulfor all she received At times her lifewas really hardCotton fields were her“backyard” She loved God likeno one else I…