Noah David is 1!!!

Today is my baby’s first birthday.  Happy birthday sweet boy!  It’s amazing how quickly a year has flown by too – it seriously feels like he was just a newborn.   Noah has grown so much in his first year of life.  He is looking more and more like a little boy now, and I’m loving [...]

Coughing

Grace coughed in my mouth 2 nights ago.  It was gross.  But now I’m finding it even more gross because I realize that she coughed little germs straight into my body and I feel like I’m getting a little bit of a sore throat.  Blech.  I’m going to go pop a couple echinacea capsules to [...]

Mrs. Woolworth

Saturday was a bitter sweet day for our family.  We were reunited with our children after a 5 day separation.  Rich and I were in Colorado Springs (gorgeous!) for a mission leaders conference and the kids stayed behind with two amazing families.  What a gift it was to get away for that long!  So, Saturday [...]

so cozy

I’m in the middle of painting my bedroom this amazing warm shade of brown.  It’s called gentle fawn…. I LOVE it.  I’m not done with it, but I’m hoping that by tomorrow night I will be.  We’ll see.  But seriously, I’m loving it.  And Rich picked Grace up at the bus stop – sort of,* [...]

Yep. Still here.

I have been so busy recently – sorry for not posting anything since August.  I find that it’s hard to blog when I have a spare moment because those times are so far and few between.  That’s what it at least seems like.
So Grace is in school.  Yay for afternoon kindergarten!  She loves it and [...]

ill.

My husband is sick.  Tomorrow will be one week since he started to not feel well.  I’m not sure what he’s sick with, but it’s beginning to seem more serious to me with each passing day because he isn’t getting better.  In fact, I think he’s getting worse.  This is pretty tough for him and [...]

I don’t own a scale. I just use other people’s when I go to their house.

In less than a week I have lost 4 – 4 1/2 pounds.  Seriously????  Not that I’m at all complaining, but it just frustrates me sometimes how my body works.  I stopped nursing officially last Friday.  Once I stop nursing I can finally begin to lose the baby weight…  it’s been a long 9 1/2 [...]

random thoughts on parenting

A good friend said today that having a baby is one of the last selfish things that you do.  Her point was that parenting in itself is a very selfless way of life.  Most people have a baby because they want a baby – and well, once that little bundle of joy arrives your life [...]

broken record

I just can’t seem to get myself organized.  It’s beyond frustrating for me, for Rich, and for anyone else I’m sure who has to deal with me on some sort of intimate level.  I think I really need to just discipline myself better in getting things done… maybe I should develop a love for lists.  [...]

outta here!

When we moved into our house a little over a year ago we had pretty much gotten rid of half our stuff.  We realized that we didn’t get rid of enough stuff and ever since have been trying to down size.  Now about 3 days or so after we moved in I started feeling sick [...]