Around the House

  • One Things Leads to Another…

    It all started with this… A pile of beautiful quilts and blankets handmade with love by friends and family for the Bean. I had somehow managed to find a place in the nursery…

  • The Mother’s Day Nest

    I was conflicted about Mother’s Day this year.  On one hand, I don’t have a baby yet.  On the other, I have a fetus kicking me in the ribs every day, and surely…

  • Sunday Morning Lovin’

    Chris:  Give me some sugar. Me:  I can’t.  I’m hungry. Chris:  Me, too.  I’m hungry for lovin’. (Dogs bark) Me:  I gotta go feed the dogs.  They’re hungry.  And not for lovin’.

  • Dogs and Diaper Genies

    I have heard throughout my pregnancy that dogs have a sense about these things.  That they just know that you are in the family way.  If that is true, then my dogs hate…

  • Demon Birds

    This is my house. This is the side of my house. This is my bedroom window on the side of my house. These are the demon birds that squawk at 4:30 in the…

  • Bellycast as Still Life

    So, apparently a lot of people had trouble viewing the fourth Bellycast that I posted this weekend.  In the Bellycast, I finally unveiled the nursery.  So exciting!  So exciting that I thought I’d…

  • A Dog Day Afternoon

    Our dogs have lost their minds lately.   I’ll be the first to tell you that we don’t have the best behaved dogs.   They have their golden moments, but for the most…

  • Why I Love Costco

    Chris:   Sweetie, do we have any spaghetti sauce? Me:   Hmm…   I dunno… Chris:   How about spaghetti noodles? Me:   Yeah, I don’t know about those either.