• Blabla Boogaloos

    Newborns aren’t that interesting. Sorry. I know that’s not what moms are supposed to say, but it’s true. They’re pretty boring. They don’t do much yet. Don’t have many preferences. Don’t have much…

  • Euphoria

    Since coming home from the hospital, my hormones have been whacked out, to say the least. But unlike during my pregnancy, my hormones seem to be surging from happy to happier and back…

  • Learning to Be a Big Brother

    If I could have chosen the smoothest transition possible for Bean and Gracie, it would have been exactly what’s been happening in our house right now. Bean seems to have been born to…

  • Back to Our New Reality

    After such a fun day on Saturday with family, Sunday morning was a lazy day for me, Chris, and Gracie Girl. Everyone was still at our house and would be coming back up…

  • Grace and Bean

    By the time my c-section was finished and we made it up to our room, it was close to midnight. My parents were still at the hospital with Bean, waiting so that he…

  • Look What We Made!

    The past few days have been a whirlwind of surprises and excitement as we welcomed the early, unexpected arrival of Baby Gracie.  Thank you all for your emails, comments, FB messages, and Tweets…

  • My Gracie Girl

    All day I have been thinking, “I wonder if Kate will have enough energy to put some pictures up tonight?”  Then I thought, “wait a minute!  I have a blog too!”  I know…

  • Anger is As Anger Does

    I have a confession. I get angry. It’s my default emotion.  Whenever something is off, whenever I feel anything other than normal, I default to anger.  Yell now, ask questions later. Maybe I’m…

  • The Firstborn

    I could go on to have 100 more children, but this one will always be my baby because it was his eyelashes and bright blue eyes that first made me somebody’s momma.

  • Chores and the Married Couple

    I’ve been asked a couple times lately how Chris and I handle sharing household responsibilities, especially with a new baby coming. I should start this off by saying that dividing household chores to…