I woke up thinking this is the day Finally! You’d think since the first one was 12 ½ weeks early the second one would at least be a week or ...

In my earliest memory of him he made me laugh. We worked together on Fridays. Usually I worked days He worked evenings but on Fridays I’d pu...

that I never managed to get posted... in no particular order... the boys with Grandpa yum! peeked out the window one day to see Jeremiah...

It had been a long week. For the past seven days I’d spent the majority of my time drugged slightly inverted in a hospital bed lying on my l...

Whew they're in the mail! I haven't been so relieved to finish a project in a long time. No that's not quite true; I was pretty ...

I just finished licking 173 envelopes I think my tongue is swollen ~ we still have a doz or so more invites to do but we ran out of the vel...

People keep asking, "Aren't ya'll having so much fun?" and when they say 'fun' their nose crinkles up & their ...

just in case there's any confusion as to what happened to all the strawberries yesterday... Lily ate them. And she's not a bit shy ...

pancakes for dinner YUM!! We haven't had pancakes in almost a year cause you know half of the batter is milk ~ Somehow we have an exce...

yet another sign that my baby girl is all growed up She tossed her words. all of them ~ One year for language the kids (Tj & Lana) had ...

curls!!! I'm darn near giddy with excitement! (I know - I don't get out much! and that's just the way we like it :-) how bless...

ordinarily when the boys get in the fridge and 'fix' their own snack I get a little irritated. but how could I complain when they c...

Lily and I had our first of what I suspect will be many tea parties. It was rather impromptu; she kept crawling to the cabinet & pullin...

I’ve been following Nate, Tricia, & baby Gwyneth’s story for about a month or so. I also check in fairly often with sweet, ornery baby A...

It's been one of those days. Actually, it's been one of those weeks. you know, the kind where not much of anything goes right... but...

6-7 years ago my (then) doctor recommended a hysterectomy. Apparently that was the only cure for my symptoms. I had a very large uterine fib...

He is risen indeed!

Lily was sitting on Lana's bed watching her 'sissia' put on make-up. Tyler popped his head in the door, "Are you girls put...

We have been crazy busy around here and I don't expect it to get any better for, oh - say, 2 months and 3 days.... but we took a break T...

I was so tickled this afternoon; I was just moving my seed-starting trays so I could check and make sure everything was moist enough. Imagi...

...when a package arrives in the mail and everyone fights over the contents for hours and your 15 yr old son is happy he's the first one...

Scooping the laundry soap into containers is definitely one of the favorite jobs around here. I'm not sure what we'll do when Lily ...

Ever since I began cautiously reintroducing dairy I have been wanting to go to Mazzios. We've been trying to go for six weeks We final...

The other day I was putting Lily's shoes on her dresser (never mind why they weren't already there...) and I said aloud - but to mys...

The boys were having a rough morning so they took turns riding in the ERGO. While Jeremiah was 'helping' me fix lunch he was just ra...

our babies aren't little angels - as a general rule They require almost constant attention (and almost as constant holding which is why...

Jeremiah and Josiah taking care of daddy's Skicktow it's clear that Daddy enjoys being the patient :-)

The weekend in pictures LilyPie just waking up from a comfy nap Josiah & Lola watching the 'long black' train. in the summer, ...