Somedays my brain lacks major creativity… maybe it’s because all the creative juices in my body have gone into my graphic design projects? At any rate, today is one of those days. I do, however, have a simple Works-for-Me-Wednesday idea to share.
This tip is for those of you with small children!
Since we have five kids, [...]

I’m just curious here. I’ve been thinking a lot about space these days. We certainly don’t seem to have enough of it, but then again, I could live in Manhattan. My quaint house would be huge. ;)  Thankfully, it’s summer, so our yard helps expand our non-existent playroom.
This post is for everyone. I need people [...]

… Father’s Day to the King of the Multi-taskers.

 
For those of you who’ve never met my husband, this photo depicts him perfectly… except he should be teaching someone to fly a helicopter, writing someone a ticket, changing a diaper, giving a dog commands in German, leading an Honor Guard, singing a special at church, buckling [...]

B, Brady, Baseball!

I haven’t written much about Brady’s baseball experience. He couldn’t be any cuter in his little uniform. In fact, the whole junior T-ball team is just plain adorable. Imagine about 30 four-year-olds, all gussied up as if they decided to be Mark Grace for Halloween. They make me smile before they even hit the [...]

My girl Evan is the perfect meeting of spunk and sparkle… of gorgeousness and grit… of little lady and tom-boy. See evidence below:

If you look closely, you’ll see that she’s eating mulch. Her dress sure is pretty, though, huh?

Here she is playing outside. The second you let her feet hit the ground, she [...]

Sorry I’ve been AWOL more often recently. This graphic design gig I have is taking off more everyday and I’m tredding as much water as I can.
I’m not complaining. It’s a ministry I love, and I enjoy it. Sadly, we’re almost to the point where we’ll have to turn people away… or hire a housekeeper [...]

… what the world’s cutest catcher looks like?

Well, now you know.
Special thanks to Andy’s fan club from last night! He had seven additional fans there aside from his family. One team mom even joked that all our chairs looked like a campsite and asked if we were going to make s’mores, too. [...]

This evening, tornadoes ripped through our area, not too far from here. In fact, the town of Monee, Illinois is just 40 minutes from us got hit pretty hard, and some good friends of ours live there. Thankfully, they were unharmed and all of their property remained untouched!

(This is a photo of the tornadoes that went through [...]

My darling two-year-old Connor has a very strange streak. The boy is sweet as they come and quick to snuggle and offer love.
But lately I’ve started to be concerned by one odd behavior.
He lays on his belly with his arms tucked under him and rocks side-to-side. If that’s not wierd enough, he gently chants “yeti, [...]

It’s [finally!] warming up here in Chicagoland, but I’ve been trying to avoid turning on the air conditioner. I just love having the windows open and getting fresh air into the house after 10 months of winter.
Because it’s been muggy, I put Evan’s hair up into another makeshift ponytail yesterday. It looked so funny that [...]