I’m happy to be the wife of a police officer. Most of the time, I don’t mind that he misses dinner to take a drunk guy to jail or resuscitate an ailing person. I generally don’t mind getting calls all hours of the night for him to go out with his police dog either. And, [...]

A while back I wrote about how I don’t like to shush people when our babies are sleeping. In a “large” family, it’s easier to teach the babies to sleep with all the noise.
Since we’ve brought Ferris home, I’ve tried to remain true to that theory. I even turn on noise during her nap time. [...]

Brady has long-since earned the reputation of being the brave one at our house. You can read about it here or here.
Today, however, I found his Achilles heal.
We were in the basement and he was squirming a bit and told Andy, “There’s a spider down here!”
Andy asked where and Brady quickly pointed to a small [...]

Connor loves his new baby sister. He can’t seem to get enough of her. He constantly wants to hold her (which is really us holding him, holding her….)
The funniest part about it is that he knows she’s the “Baby F” that was in Mommy’s tummy all those months. He knows her name is Ferris (from [...]

When I was a kid, my mom endured long hours of Monopoly with me… partly because she (like me) is competitive, but also because I’m sure she thought she was honing my math skills. All that money exchanging hands does teach you a thing or two about currency.
Not anymore.
I just saw a commercial today for [...]

I’ve been hearing that word a lot recently. “Recession.” Isn’t everyone feeling a bit tight financially? 
The kids wanted to spend some of their hard-saved money the other day, but this is what their piggy bank looks like:

Hospital food has come a loooong way. While I was there having Ferris, I got to order my meals from a menu. No more putting up with just Jell-O.
The hospital where we had Ferris has an entire floor devoted to labor & delivery called The Birth Place. The renovated the entire concept about [...]

My husband is a goofball. It’s true. I love him because of it, not in spite of it. He cracks me up. He’s one of the few people in the world that has a twisted sense of humor as whacky as mine.
Last night, he was channel surfing and stopped on a PBS documentary about the [...]

We’re enjoying our family time with the new baby, Ferris. The boys can’t help but want to hold her constantly, watch her sleep, rub her head. Evan even likes to touch her.
Yesterday, I was getting ready to breastfeed Ferris and Connor really wanted to help. I tried to explain that she was going [...]

GIRL!

The score in our house is now boys: 3, girls: 2. Here’s the birth announcement for our newest bundle of joy, Ferris Hope. She was born Tuesday night and both mommy and baby are doing great. I’m sure everyone is wondering about her name. Ferris is Irish and it means “forgiving and reliable.” Hope [...]