Dear Brayden, Today you are nine. In my head, you have been “nine” for a few weeks now—I just feel like you’ve grown up so much this year. Eight was a big leap, but nine seems natural. I think it’s ten that I will have a hard time with. Nine suits you well. You aren’t […]

It is an unheard of seventy-two degrees outside right now. If my screens were on my windows, I would have them all open, but we are still winterized over here in Webster. Sawyer and I spent a good chunk of the morning playing outside. He hasn’t been outside to play in forever, so he had […]

Just like that, school is back in session. We all prefer to have no responsibilities of course. Carter came home from school saying (through tears) that he had a headache at school. And then he promptly fell asleep on my bed. He’s never fallen asleep after school before. I guess going back after nine days […]

We finally climbed out of the germ zone in the Chase House. Last week was a little rough–the dreaded stomach bug hit all of our kids, so I was stuck at home for most of the week. But we are in the clear (knock on wood), for now at least. We had a few days […]

This past weekend, we ran Downtown in the knick of time to see this amazing display. Apparently they have a yearly display–we will be sure not to miss it in future years! According to their website (Airigami.com. . . a clever enough name in itself), they “are artists who specialize in creative content made entirely out […]

My third child and I don’t do nearly half of what I used to do with Brayden when he was two. I’m happy to hang out at home with him during the mornings. I think because our life is generally a little more action packed with three kids than it was with one, I’m okay […]

We know this park inside and out, we’ve been here so many times. It’s small enough that it’s not overwhelming, but there are enough different activities that the kids have so much to do. As we always do, we stayed overnight one night so that we got two days in the park. It was a […]

When you have three kids, it’s interesting to see their individual personalities come out as the years go on. My two bookends are a tiny bit over six years apart. They look alike. They both had an intense love for balls at a young age. And they both have no idea how to play. Funny […]

Today I had mom’s group. It’s called MOPS, which I will be the first to admit is a silly name, but it stands for “Mothers of Preschoolers”. And this of course doesn’t make any sense either because you don’t have to have a preschooler to be in the group–you just have to have a child of […]

My day is filled with noise. A lot of little people noise. Momma, momma! Play ball with momma? A giggling toddler and soon to be six year old. A squeaking recorder belting out Hot Cross Buns over and over. A video game or a twenty minute Paw Patrol show or the dryer clunk clunk clunking the wad of […]