My husband really is the coolest guy I know. I mean, he honestly goes from flying a helicopter to wrestling bad guys to the ground to changing diapers and finally to taking drunk drivers to jail … all in a day’s work. Seriously!
Tonight he was late for dinner. This isn’t too unusual… It happens quite [...]

I mowed the lawn today. I’m one of those weird people who actually loves doing it. Something about the smell of freshly cut grass reminds me of summer … and baseball.
Unfortunately, what usually takes about 45 minutes to do took me 2 hours. We’ve had so much rain that it’s been more than [...]

Andy was just “doing school,” as he calls it. He has a pre-school workbook and he loves it when I’m his teacher. I hope he always has this much enthusiasm for homeschooling.

The sheet he was doing tonight was all about the letter ‘e.’ He was to circle the pictures that started with the [...]

… check for Cheetos.

Brady may have been there. And he may have invented his own version of basketball using a floor lamp and, yes, Cheetos.
My work is never done.
PS– Yes, I dusted out the lamp before I replaced the bulb. But don’t bring your white gloves with you the next time you come. I hate [...]

When our first son was born, we were given lots of clothes for him in various sizes. He had a huge closet all to himself, so I hung most of his things in his closet. When it came time to find something, I was thankful for these:

The size dividers I have aren’t exactly like these, [...]

That might sound like an odd request, but that’s what I tell my husband everyday before he leaves to go do work. Right after, “I love you,” of course.
See, my darling husband has chosen two rather dangerous jobs: police officer and helicopter pilot. Any time he’s late, it’s easy to start thinking he may not [...]

Here’s what we do for fun when things are slow:

Now, here are the answers to your questions:
1. Yes, everyone is OK, aside from breathing in more smoke than we like.
2. Yes, this did require the use of a fire extinguisher, which I thank the Lord we had on hand.
3. No, we did not try to [...]

OK, not really, but my Mom (Nana) was up visiting again this weekend. She and I took the kids to Buckely Homestead today. It’s a county park, but it’s set up to be a living museum of early farm living. The kids, of course, loved the animals and the outdoors. We saw huge horses and sheep, [...]

For some crazy reason, we’ve started a tradition in our family that every baby’s first taste of “real food” is bananas. Now that Evan is seven-and-a-half months old (which is like five-and-a-half months adjusted age in her preemie world), we let her have her first taste. Here’s her reaction to bananas:

She tried them for the [...]

For days, Connor has been saying something that sounds just like “fried chicken.” It’s those exact words, but the context is all wrong, so I knew it couldn’t mean that.
This morning he was carrying around a small Magna Doodle Pro (one of those magnetic drawing thingies that gives you a clean slate with one swipe [...]