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This is Nate. He’s seven weeks old. Seven weeks ago he was intertwined with my innards, and I was as big as a house. Since then I have…

Oh, what a difference four years makes. When I look at this picture, I can’t help the tiny shiver of panic, someplace in my gut: where’s Sam and…

This is my official author publicity photo. It’s about ten years old…I no longer have that shirt, earrings, or haircut. Or the computer. Now, I have an iPad.…

This picture is so embarrassing. Really. It represents our failings as parents. We don’t go to the professional photographer. And our kids know it. They also know that…

The twins officially kicked off Hergenrader Birthday Season on June 23 with princess and tractor cakes and gymnastics and more fun than their three-year-old minds could imagine. The…

Of all the things I’ve been waiting for, my late thirties was not one of them. I know…birthdays are better than the alternative and you’re only as young…

Yesterday was one of those hard days that every parent has walked through. By 4 o’clock, the kids and I had only one option for making through the…

Catie’s sixth birthday was a bit anticlimactic this year. The new baby and new school (and the new bus ride!) really took the focus off the countdown we’ve…

Just when I thought I was out of the postpartum woods, my wonderful friend Jen made this video of Nate’s birth. Click on that link to see if…