Our oldest son Andy is slated to have the second (and hopefully final) surgery done tomorrow to correct a minor birth defect. This surgery will be longer and more extensive than the last, plus it will be a harder recovery… one that will require about a week to ten days of “down time.” (Down time [...]

We’re back! I’ll write a bit about our week later, but for now, we’re happy to be home. My house may be small, but at least the sheets stay on my bed. More later!

Just so no one thinks the morning sickness swallowed me alive (today has actually been good so far!), I’m letting you know that I’ll be AWOL for a week. We’re heading out of town so my husband can serve as an instructor at a nation-wide Honor Guard Academy for police officers and firefighters. (Just another [...]

I should start this post by explaining that right behind our house is 14 acres of protected natural wetland preserves. It’s beautifully wooded (so is part of our yard) and has a neat stream running through it. We’ve had deer in our front yard on Christmas Eve and huge woodchucks in our backyard — despite [...]

I’m at 14-ish weeks or so along in this pregnancy. For most people, morning sickness ends around 12 weeks. Mine is just getting worse.
Morning sickness is sick. And I’m in mourning.

We’re in serious need of some help, here. As many of you know, each time I’m expecting I fret over finding the name for the baby until it’s settled. I have to like the name itself, its rhythm and its meaning. And it has to sound good being shouted from the Little League bleachers. [...]

So, my Cubbies are at it again. They won a great game tonight and are still in first place. (I feel like I should whisper that… ) We were watching the game tonight whle my husband was home on his dinner break. When an exceptional play was made, he shouted, “YEAH, BABY!”
Connor has since [...]

I know there’s a lot of skepticism surrounding this idea, but all of our kids have learned sign language and it’s been invaluable. We bought this book after seeing it featured on our local news. I read it and thought it was worth a shot. It turned out to be worth a lot more.

Starting around [...]

With Andy, Brady and Connor’s pregnancies, I was very sick. Morning sickness lasted all day. Every day. With Andy, I got sick while I was in labor. Fun stuff!
I’ve tried every trick in the book. And still, I’ve thrown up (sorry!) in more places than anyone else I know… including the median between the parking lot of [...]

The kids have definitely been enjoying all the extra space in their new, big room. There’s more than a 5′ x 10′ area with nothing there, so Evan has been crawling all over and Andy and Brady have been, of course, playing baseball in their room! And in the past two days, Connor has figured [...]