Happy Birthday to my Aunt Lois, who turns 80 today. Aunt Lois is a hard-worker and a wonderful Christian mother, grandma, and great-grandma. She raised TWO SETS of twins (and two singletons)…five of those kids were born in less than three years. Wow. When M and I were struggling to keep us with the newborn...Continue Reading
Wow. The Monday after Spring Break is tough around here. Every year our family is completely fooled that it’s summer. Maybe it’s the (WHY DO WE DO THIS AGAIN, UNITED STATES??) time change. Maybe it’s the late bedtimes. Maybe it’s the pool time and laissez-faire attitude that we have hours to kill and Fast Facts...Continue Reading
There once was a girl named Catie Who was such a fun playmatey Running, skipping, and swinging Laughing and sibling slinging Never worrying about the ISD of Katy!Continue Reading
Those would be bluebonnets on the side of Highway 71 on our way home from Austin. And four-year-old twins Like millions of Texas parents before us, we pulled over and plopped the kids (and dog) in a roadside bouquet of them. I love Texas. I really, really love this place, that has fields on the...Continue Reading
Okay, I’m not sure that it’s ever TIME for Tball. Especially since Sam understands very little of the sport. Including, but not limited to, how to hold a bat. Here he’s wearing it as a hat as he “practices” in the back yard. I’m thinking M will have to buy his coach a beer at...Continue Reading
Every year, during the last weekend in February or first weekend in March, the kids get in the pool. Because I have an adverse physical reaction to cold water (it makes me really cold), my personal pool season runs from Mothers Day until my birthday (early September). The picture nicely captures the kids first dip...Continue Reading
A) At the pediatrician for his eighteen-month check-up, cleverly hiding his eyes while the nurse prepares the shots. Because everyone knows that if you can’t see them, they can’t see you. B) Searching for his pants. And his paci. As a bonus, he’s doing an excellent job of “cleaning” up any pesky strep or croup...Continue Reading
First of all, let me just say that the pictures you’ll see here are not pretty. You know how when an actor gains a bunch of weight for a movie, they always win an Oscar–to reward their humiliation. That’s what I’m doing here. Humiliating myself in the name of journalism–actually in the name of fashion...Continue Reading
Please know that I tried hard, as I shared the story of Catie’s crib that we gave away this weekend, to make a play on words with the rapper slang, crib. Sadly, I don’t have enough jive talk in me to make an outdated term like ‘crib’ from 20 years ago sound remotely like something...Continue Reading
