• The Baby Front Carry

    In my wise old parenting experience, I have found one particular baby holding position to be incredibly versatile:  the Front Carry. The Front Carry serves so many purposes in life. It’s like the…

  • Fried.

    I’m having one of those weeks where my brain seems to be switched off. I keep sitting down to blog, but nothing comes to me. I sit down to talk to the kids…

  • Se Habla Espanol

    When we were in Costa Rica, everyone spoke Spanish. (Side note: I just re-read that sentence and it is the dumbest thing I’ve ever written. No crap they spoke Spanish…what else would they…

  • Yes or No

    I’m reading this book called “Mile Markers,” by Lance Armstrong’s ex-wife, Kristin Armstrong. She is a runner who has a blog on the Runner’s World website and who has written several books about…

  • Status Update

    This post is more of a scheduling pep talk for myself than anything else. In the next week, there are so many major events happening that I can hardly keep myself straight. I…

  • Singing Praises

    This past Sunday in church, we had a guest minister who gave a sermon about active prayer.  She suggested that sometimes we need to do physical actions when we pray to remind us…

  • One of Those Days…

    I haven’t had one of those parenting days in a while. You know the ones. Those days when nothing goes right and everything is a struggle. I mean, don’t get me wrong. On…

  • Self-Inflicted Laziness

    In the hustle and bustle of daily life, sometimes our family gets behind. If we have a weekend with hardly any down time at home, laundry piles up that week, groceries don’t get…

  • Hooves, Mouths, and Bad Days

    Yesterday was a long Monday for me. Nothing particularly bad happened. It was just a long, stressful day. Aren’t all Mondays? I woke up this morning and thought, “Today is going to be…

  • Monkey Joe.s

    This past weekend we took Bean and Gracie to a birthday party for one of Bean’s classmates. Who knew that a toddler birthday party would be a lesson in the value of marriage? …