Sunday was full of boxes. Monday was full of boxes. I have a feeling today will be full of boxes as well. We are slowly making progress, thank goodness. Quite literally, I think I’ve been paralyzed about the whole situation. Avoidance at it’s best. If I ignore the work that lies ahead, will it go […]

This is it folks. It’s go time. I’m in a situation I have found myself in many times before, but this time. . . I smell trouble. Back in 2011, read about my packing progress. I’m not rookie at this moving thing. I’ve been there, done that. And then done it all over again. Except–well, […]

Things in our house have been a little one the interesting side for me lately. Child number three has been talking up a storm. And by talking up a storm, I really mean that he has his own dialect and I normally don’t understand a lick of what he’s talking about. Which means he gets […]

If there’s one thing a death in the family does, it’s bringing families together. Physically together. If you’ve been reading my blog at all the past couple of weeks, you’d know that my mom’s dad passed away last week–the man I lovingly referred to as Papa. And though we were crushed by the news, there […]

We were out of commission for over a week in the Chase house. Something bit almost all of us and caused some major damage in the toilet department. Actually, because two of our kids are pretty little, it wasn’t really the toilet department so much as the bed covering department. Lots of laundry. Lots of […]

This handsome man is the one I call Papa.  The one with the really long Italian name–Calogero Antonio Rosario Arcadipane. But lovingly knows as just “Charlie”. He was taken Home into the lovely arms of Jesus yesterday morning. He was 91. My grandma has been waiting for him here since 2004, and he’s getting there […]

Last year, Brayden and James spent loads of time designing Brayden’s AWANA grand prix car. James looked up tricks on what to do with the wheels . . . he used weights in the car. He looked lots of stuff up online. For the amount of time they spent trying to get it in good […]

January. New beginnings. 2015 didn’t begin with any kind of high lofty resolution for me. It begin with chaos. Chaos called our house is going on the market, so let’s run around like crazies for three days and try to fix every little issue possible. And that’s what we did. On January 2nd, our house went […]

You will have to forgive me for the excessive amount of basketball images in this post.  Not much for variety.  But the grandparents will thank me, because I know they like seeing them 🙂 We’ve come a long way with Brayden in a few years. I remember writing this post–He had just turned four and […]

Last week, I posted this image of James and I on Facebook. It got more interaction that I was anticipating, and we kind of chuckled about it. But I think it’s because people could relate. We know so many people with little ones. Some of you work all day and then come home and take […]