Baby R just pulled a bag of cookies out of the trash and started nibbling away.  I wish I could say I didn’t think of doing it first.

Over here!  Go see how cute Baby R looks in her new Lands End outfit!

I got this from Kelli at There is no place like home.  The directions are to post the first sentence of your first blog post of each month. ~January~ Trying not to cry over spilled milk, or spilled urine as the case may be. ~February~ I have had some pretty interesting conversations with my kids [...]

So it’s about that time again.  A lot of people say that taking down their Christmas decorations is depressing.  But not for me.  In fact, nothing is more depressing to me than seeing Christmas after New Years Day.  It’s almost as bad as the Valentines display I saw in A.C. Moore the week before Christmas. [...]

I was half asleep in the front seat of our family van, halfway home from Christmas With The Inlaws, when we got a call on our cell phone.  I wiped the drool off my chin and picked up the phone with a groggy "hello". It was my sister-in-law, informing us that amid the hubbub saying [...]

I picked this up from Steph. This Month…The Thing I’ve Been Working On The Most: Getting ready to host Christmas, for sure.  That and my daughter’s birthday the weekend before.  I always complain about my daughter’s birthday being on Christmas instead of in January when she was "due".  But the nice thing about it is, [...]

Or something like that. All I know is, the goose is in good company.  Over the past week I have consumed almost a gallon of eggnog, at least two dozen cookies, over a pound of fudge, and a quarter of a pumpkin pie.  And we haven’t even discussed the "real" food yet. I need to [...]

I hope you had a very merry Christmas! Our Christmas officially began with a Christmas Eve "lessons and carols" service at our church.  We got home late and put the kidlets to bed so Santa could come.  He left Little D a globe and a table hockey game, Princess C an ironing board and a [...]