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The answer? No. Probably not.Sunday is the start of my third trimester. We’re going to have a baby! This realization has slowly dawned on me. Really dawned on…

Summer is almost here (well, not according to the actual calendar, but we live in Texas so anything not Christmas is almost summer). For the Hergenraders that means…

While we were sharing the peace this Sunday at church, the elderly man behind us pointed to my (huge!) belly and said, “I don’t know if that’s a…

But you can’t pick your twin’s nose. Thank Goodness.I thought we had gotten through Cold Season without the start of the dreaded picking. But the picking usually starts…

An afternoon at horse camp tells a lot about a person–especially a Girl Scout. There are the girls who ignore the animals. Those disgusted by the piles of…

One afternoon last month Catie and I were talking about time. She has this teaching clock from the dollar bins at Target (half of our house is from…

You may see a lot of things when you look at this picture. The constant mess of our playroom, for instance. The genius architecture of the twins’ Lego…

Here we are…twenty-four weeks pregnant, and we’ve finally taken the first belly shot. What happened? With my first two pregnancies we took several pictures. We had to with…

Nothing makes winter seem longer than a swimming pool in your backyard. All of the sudden, summer is so definitive. When it’s warm enough to get in the…