This weekend, Brady started showing symptoms of being sick. Within 24 hours, all four of the kids had fevers. Sunday morning, I woke up with one, too. We’ve been battling fevers and bad cold symptoms ever since.
The kids, I have to say, do a better job of carrying on with their daily lives than I [...]

My poor Andy is so used to having his mother be pregnant. I often joke with Nate that my kids think it’s normal to see their Mommy with her head in the toilet, since morning sickness is very much a part of every pregnancy for me.
Earlier this week, we went with some friends of ours [...]

The last few nights, I’ve had more rounds of “false labor.” (I prefer to think of it as practice labor.) Not a big deal, really, unless you consider the fact that it has lasted more than eight hours a night. Seriously!
I know this is my sixth pregnancy. I know I should know the difference between [...]

For about the past month, Connor wakes up before anyone else, gets all of his blankets and comes in and climbs in our bed. He’s not content until he’s right between Nate and me and covered with our blankets, too. Then he goes back to sleep.
The other day, after he’d already joined us for his [...]

One of my majors in college was English… so nothing warms my heart more than hearing my boys speak properly. We had a quick visit with Nate’s parents Friday and were on the long, two-hour drive home last night when Andy said, “Mommy, can we call Nana? The drive seems to go more quickly when [...]

Obviously, as this pregnancy nears its end, thoughts of labor and delivery are often at the forefront of my mind. Memories of our previous births mix with the anticipation of meeting Baby F.
On the way to church yesterday morning, I realized something. I’ve been pregnant for forever. Not really, but it seems that way. Just [...]

I told you all before about how we have baseball fever in our house. It starts about mid-October and last until Spring Training begins at Hohokam park in Mesa, Arizona.
This year has been no exception. In fact, it’s worse than usual because of the much-awaited T-ball sign-ups.
Connor was supposed to be getting ready for a [...]

Our friend Carrie turned four last week and she had a big hangar party to celebrate. (For those of you not in the aviation world, that’s a big party inside the hangar — like a huge garage for planes and helicopters). Carrie’s dad owns one of the helicopter flight schools where Nate teaches and she [...]

My sweet Bo (Connor) posed for this photo last week. Notice he’s puckered up and ready to kiss me with sucker-sweet lips. What a sweetheart.

The excitement around our house is palpable. I’m not kidding. I’ve never seen a four-year-old and a five-year-old so giddy about something — not even birthday presents.
We’re signing up for baseball next week!

It took us about a month to track down the exact date and time for T-ball sign-ups. It seems as though they send [...]