• A Visitor and a Project

    This past weekend, Chris’s dad, Mickey, came to visit us for the long weekend.  It was his first visit to our house, and I know how excited Chris was to have him here…

  • Overjoyed With Under-Scheduling

    As parents, one thing Chris and I have purposefully shied away from is over-scheduling our kids.  Remember last summer (or was it two ago now?) when I over scheduled Bean as soon as…

  • Family Photo Prep Time

    This coming weekend, we are meeting with the fabulous Jenn Hopkins for our annual family portraits. To be honest, every time we have done these, I have not thought about them until, like,…

  • An Eyeball in Her Nose

    Last Friday, I was sitting down to begin a training session I was attending all day for work.  We had barely gotten started when my phone rang at 9:00am.  It was the daycare.…

  • At the End of the Day

    At the end of the day, Chris and I are drained. Work has taken a ton out of me. If I go to the gym, that takes more out of me. Cooking dinner,…

  • A New Kind of Mother’s Day

    My first Mother’s Day was super special to me. I hadn’t even had Bean yet. After an insane day of nesting and spontaneously needing to clean things that I had never felt the…