In the scramble to move around rooms in our house back in March, our living room turned into my office.  There’s still a couch and the kid’s games in the built in storage, but this is now where I work–when I’m “in the office”.  And like most things in the house when we rush around […]

This is teacher appreciation week, so Brayden went to school with a single flower for his teacher.  All the kids in the class were supposed to bring one, so the teacher had a nice little arrangement of random flowers.  Brayden appreciates people every day though–he’s our sensitive first born.  His love language is “coloring/drawing pictures […]

James spent a lot of time outside this weekend.  Cleaning up leaves, brush, fixing things, mowing . . . I spend about ten minutes outside at a time, mainly walking around aimlessly, doing one or two small tasks before I retreat back inside because being just about thirty weeks pregnant is exhausting without even doing […]

Though you have to search high and low for them, there really is a plethora of free activities in most areas.  Back when Brayden was two, and he was the only little in our house, I remember that I bought a teacher’s planner from the dollar section at Target and dug through online sources for […]

This little munchkin gets to come see me every four months for her baby’s first year sessions with me.  I love her family–her big brother has been in front of my camera many times already, and I enjoy seeing them.  Aria is eight months, and she has the most gorgeous blue eyes and easy going […]

There’s certain things you learn in your adult life, but only by living and experiencing.  One of those things is learning how to be a good steward of your belongings.  So when you don’t have a lot of experience, and you really don’t know what you’re doing, sometimes things like this happen:  Last year, we […]