• A Stupidly Simple Recipe

    If you’ve been ’round these parts for any length of time, you know that I am not gifted in the culinary arts. I’m getting better every year, but for the most part, my…

  • Womb to Breathe

    Some of the happiest times in my whole life were the two weeks at home after both my babies were born. For nine long months, we had anticipated the arrival of our first…

  • Happy Days

    Having two kids so close in age has a lot of pros and cons to it. In the very beginning when we brought Gracie home, we went through a really nice little honeymoon…

  • Costa Rica Bound!

    I get asked a lot about the trip to Costa Rica that Chris and I are taking at the end of March. We were recipients of the “Gift of Happiness,” which is an…

  • Boys and Their…Toys

    Bean is back on track with his potty training again. He’s not even really potty training anymore. He’s pretty much housebroken. (I know that’s a puppy terms, but toddlers are a lot like…

  • Get Your Motor Runnin.

    I’m going on three weeks of this terrible sinus infection (with a side of double ear infections). It has just been slow going’s getting better. As soon as I’d start to feel better,…

  • Happily Ever After My Cold

    I wish I was still reporting to you from my sick bed, but duty calls. I went back to work yesterday, and the exact words from my students were, “You look like death,…

  • Short Cuttin. Baby Food

    When Bean was a wee lad, he did not like processed baby food at all. Try though we might, we could not get him to eat anything out of a jar. I was…

  • Scenes from a Sick Bed

    This week I have really concentrated on living through my sinus infection and double ear infections. It’s taken a lot of concentration. I don’t remember ever having been this sick. I broke down…