Family

  • Hooray for Easter!

    Easter is my favorite holiday. I love it because of what it celebrates – the resurrection of Christ. And I love it for what it symbolizes – new beginnings. I love this time…

  • A Funny Little Story

    This weekend Chris and I took Bean to the Orlando Science Center for a day of Big Boy fun.  In the exhibit about weather and the earth, I took a minute to sit…

  • Big Boy Day

    First, thank you all for the suggestions on how to deal with Bean during this transition period. We had an appointment with our pediatrician on Friday for Gracie and while we were there,…

  • Discipline and the Big Brother

    Bean has definitely embraced being a big brother. He loves his “Gaycee.” He brings her toys and shares his food with her (according to Bean, she should be eating more popcorn and cheese).…

  • The Mini-Nursery

    Just like we did with Bean, we are keeping Gracie in our room at night in a bassinet until she’s a little bigger. I’m sure she’d be fine, really, to sleep in her…

  • What’d You Do This Weekend?

    What’d you do this weekend? Me? I didn’t do much. On Saturday, I sat on my couch taking rapid-fire pictures of Gracie with my camera. And when I got bored with that, I’d…

  • 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…