This week, Shannon’s theme for Works for Me Wednesday is The What Do I Fix? Edition. She says, “It’s 5:15 pm, the kids are hungry, you have a headache, hubby is almost home, and the pantry has three things in it.  What is your BEST last-minute meal recipe?  Share with everybody this week.  We’ll call [...]

Last night, Brady took a big swig of a Sprite Zero. (We think he has allergies and are trying to narrow it down. He, for now, can’t have corn syrup, so that really limits the drinks he can have!)
He swallowed and said, “Ahh!”
I grinned.
Then he said, “Tastes like dirt!”
Strange, strange kid.

Nate has been really sick this weekend, so he and I were lounging around last night, not doing much. We suddenly heard an uproar from the living room and Brady started screaming. Brady quickly yelled, “Mommy!”
Me: “What?”
Brady: “Connor and Andy are kissing my hair, and I don’t like it!!”
Sure enough, the other two were torturing [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about birthdays around here recently. In fact, all of us have birthdays in the months of October through January, with two each in the latter two months!
Last night I was putting away some Peanut M&M’s that I had bought to make a party-type mix for our neighbors. Brady asked [...]

Evan’s had a major breakthrough in her development.
Her first tooth is coming in on the bottom! It’s actually broken through the gums. Yippee!

Hello out there… Yes, you!
I need help with a Christmas gift. We’re looking to buy a some friends of ours (a whole family) a fun board game for Christmas. Something that’s fun for everyone. They have Scattergories, Catch Phrase, Dutch Blitz, Cranium…. You can see that they like to play games.
Does anyone out there know [...]