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…
Continue ReadingYou 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…
Continue ReadingHere 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…
Continue ReadingNothing 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…
Continue ReadingThere’s this new blog that everyone (okay, really the media and dietitians) love. A teacher in Chicago is eating the school lunch every day, posting pictures of what…
Continue ReadingThe Kids Becoming One with the Hotel Germs—>I may be closer to becoming a grown-up. I’ve long been convinced that I have the soul of a seventeen-year-old. I…
Continue ReadingIf I can call myself a scrapbooker, then it’s only with the highest degree of shame. I encompass everything ugly about this hobby. Tacky? In college I cut…
Continue ReadingToday we did something we’ve never done before–loaded all the kids into the minivan and headed to the doctor to find out the gender of our fourth baby.…
Continue ReadingI love to real other peoples’ blogs. I’ve never tried one for myself because of simple fear. Every diary, journal or log(boxloads of them ) I’ve attempted has…
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