I really wanted to send out a birth announcements for Jillian with her sister and brothers included so I started looking all over the internet for just the right one months ago! Finding an attractive announcement that would include the other kids was a lot harder than I anticipated! Good sibling announcements aren’t that common [...]
I have written about my trouble breastfeeding Jillian last month and because of that I was using a pump and bottles way more than I ever had with the other kids. That meant lots of washing and I hate washing! Even though I ran the dishwasher once a day I still needed to wash the [...]
My backyard ice rink post has been getting a lot of questions and suggestions about liners. This is the one piece of an ice rink that will likely be replaced year after year and there seems to be an ongoing search for a liner that is wide enough for a rink, strong enough to last [...]
Well I had hopes of getting some reviews up today, but we got sidetracked when Ben had a bad collison and fall at hockey last night. John took him to the ER because the coach said he hit his head really hard and had concussion symptoms(the great parents we are didn’t notice because we took [...]
Yesterday Stacie came back over and took some pictures of all 4 kids together for our holiday card (not an easy task but Stacie is a saint). Things got off to a rough start and I was a cranky mom but in the end we got two cute pictures for our card. There were some [...]
The boys love listening to Crazy Dave when they go to bed. Lately Crazy Dave has only been publishing a new podcast every other week so we had a shortage of episodes. After listening to the awesome Fellowship of the Ham episode three times I decided to search google for some older episodes. I have [...]
When I was a kid I loved my collection of Hot Wheels cars and trucks. My friends and I would spend hours playing with them in the dirt or setting up long runs of track to race the cars down the stairs, through the kitchen, and down into our family room with a big jump [...]
Over the last couple years we’ve put together a nice collection of boards games (I LOVE Haba) and a couple months ago I decided we should set aside time to play games with the boys. What started as a game night has turned into an almost nightly ritual. Once Jamie goes to bed, I let [...]
