“I’m walking, yes indeed.” Little Sarah has been walking for about 2 months, but it has taken about that long to get video of her actually walking! My daughters are pretty consistent – Rachel started walking around 13 months and so did Sarah. For clarification, steps need to be taken independently to be classified as…
Can ya’ll believe that Rachel is 8 years old! Well, I can’t! A few weeks ago, a lady in the neighborhood asked about the age gap between my daughters, and I said “6 years – actually almost 7”. She plainly looked at me and told me that she thought that Rachel was my youngest. Ouch….…
Mother’s Day is almost over, but I am still considering this a Mother’s Day post. Yesterday, I was wiping Sarah Amelia’s face and my thumb accidentally poked her eye. She seemed fine, but after taking a walk outside she had a red-mark under her eye, which looked like a mosquito bite. This morning my beaming…
Bryan and Rachel sort of pulled a fast one on me. I say sort of because Rachel filled me in as soon as Bryan gave her the details. They planned a Spring Break trip to Colorado! Bryan and Rachel had been talking a lot about winter sports and skiing, so there was a lot of…
I thought that I would share some adorable video of Sarah. Last week Sarah was in the best mood! It seemed like she was just one little roll-polly of joy! I know that’s very bragy-bragy but it’s true 🙂 This video was recorded on a Saturday, and it might have been the first or second…
Many months ago, several members of our Sunday school class purchased tickets to a production of The Wizard of Oz. We got 3 tickets, because I knew that 2 hours of sitting still in a theatre would not be a fun time for Sarah Amelia (or for the parent trying to deal with a squirmy…
This blog is not supposed to be about me, but I just can’t help myself. I really feel like adding my two cents to the ongoing debate about the pressure for moms to be wonder-women. What got my attention in a major way was a blow-up last year when some lady named Maria Kang posted…
On February 21, 2014 I was stressed. I had lots of things that needed to be done at work, my yard looked like a hot mess and the plants that I had bought a week prior still weren’t planted (see my “Welcome to the Jungle” post), Girl Scout cookies needed to be delivered (and still…
I must say that 2013 was a good year for our household. With the start of the New Year came a lot of anticipation for the new arrival that was soon to join us! We rang in the New Year with some of our terrific friends (and neighbors). Rachel got to play with sparklers and…
When we lived in Kentucky, I would peruse Southern Living and dream about growing beautiful Southern and tropical plants. I lamented the short growing/blooming seasons in the “mid-South”. Then we moved to the tropics. The grass is always greener on the other side. I love Crape Mrytles and big showy tropical plants, not to mention…