Don’t try to follow my train of thought. It derailed awhile back.
1) Speaking of trains, Ferris “rode her potty train to the end” this week. We started with her Special Potty Day last Monday. Yesterday (Monday again) she finished it off by getting 26 stickers (successes) in a row on her chart!! Woo-Hoo.
Her reward was [...]
Our wonderful, amazing, creative, patient, stellar niece Erica was over for a while yesterday and she captured this moment of our oldest three boys… Connor, Andy, Brady. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw it.
She also made them octopus hot dogs for lunch. She’s the best.
I can’t help myself. I love my kids… I love baseball… I love brightly colored summer photos… So, I just can’t stop. My sister-in-law Heather took these photos Saturday at Opening Day. I’m posting them here for all eternity!
She got many more of Andy and Brady…
Brady played first base for the first inning. Doesn’t he [...]
I still don’t think of us as being a large family… Maybe that’s because our oldest is only seven. For whatever reason, I just don’t yet. Maybe that day will come…
There are MANY, MANY blessings to having a big family. I realized one of them while grocery shoppoing today: You NEVER have to reach into [...]
I have to head off to a baseball board meeting soon, so I don’t have time to give you the full recap, but I will say this:
We had a GREAT, AMAZING, WONDERFUL time at Wrigley Field on Sunday.
We ended up riding the South Shore train into the city, then catching the Red Line portion of [...]
We’re heading to Wrigley Field in just three days with our boys! We couldn’t be more excited.
We’re praying for good weather. The forecast for game day changes daily. This morning they predicted it will be 68 degrees with a 60% chance of rain.
We realized this morning that it will be cheaper — [...]
Ever have one of those days? Not the bad kind, but the kind where — no matter what happens — everything is still good?
That’s here today!
I think it’s partially baseball season that has me in a good mood… or the fact that I found the bottoms of the hampers today! Or maybe it’s [...]
If Friday was Good Friday and we celebrated the resurrection of Christ yesterday, then surely today should be better than good! Today is now called Amazing Monday in my book!
We read through the Easter story from the Bible with the kids last night. We used the Resurrection Eggs and they had turns opening each [...]
The weather outside today is simply gorgeous! I couldn’t pass up this opportunity, so I surprised the kids by squeezing in a trip to the park, somewhere between lunch and nap time. Seemed like the perfect plan to take advantage of 74 degrees and sunny. Plus, the public school kids were still being held prisoner [...]
The weather is finally above freezing here in Chicagoland! I love it when it warms up.
Today, as we finished school, I sent the 5 oldest kiddies out to play. When I looked out the window a few minutes later, this warmed my heart even more:
I didn’t even ask Andy and Brady to swing with their [...]