We survived it. Our first spring break post having kids in school has come to a close. And we are all still {mostly} standing. I don’t recall ever having “spring break” as a kid. Maybe I am incorrect in my […]
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As we were doing the impossible working our way through the 78 steps to bedtime the other night, the hubs posed the question of the day, and in honor of it being St. Pat’s Day, he inquired: If a leprechaun gave you […]
It had been a day for him. And so, for us, too. A day with far too little patience packed in. A day with far too many tears. And by dinner time, I wanted for it to be bedtime. But […]
We traveled to far off places this weekend. We met up with my sibs, parents, and their fams in Des Moines. We hit the road on Friday morn and the middlest started out the trip with a bang when he […]
We are meal planning people. We look at the calendar a week out. We plan a menu for each day. We do grocery shopping every weekend. And we eat at home nearly every evening. We are sort of boring and […]
“It was like I blinked, and he was 20,” She said to me. I was in the checkout at Old Navy and the woman behind me, admiring my littlest as he toddled about, said “It just goes so fast. Savor every […]
It was going to be a really lovely weekend. I could just feel it deep in my gut. The weather was forecasted to be absolutely grand. We had nothing on the family docket except letting the fresh air quell our […]
I was never a middle. I was the baby. Or am the baby, I suppose. And so was my husband. But I constantly find myself feeling for the middle one. The kid who gets a bit of bad rap for being […]
March. To me, there’s something about March. Something lovely. But then something of a tease. Because there’s something about the sunshine in March that fills me with a little extra hope. Something that makes my bones ache for fresh air. […]
One of my very best friends texted me the other day. “The next time we talk, we need to have a conversation about boys.” As I read her text, I giggled. “Oy. I imagine they’re very different from girls.” But […]
