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We have a special place. It’s a few minutes away from our house, but when we go there, we feel like we’ve been transported to an entirely different world. Yesterday, while the bigger kids were all in activities, AJ and I visited our special place for the first time this year. It was a perfect […]
Reese turned 10 last month. We had to wait for a few weeks after her birthday to have her party, but it was worth the wait. Reese is at such a funny age - that in-between stage where she stops being a little girl and starts becoming a young woman. It’s kind of driving me […]
I arrived back in Maryland early this morning (early, early) and discovered that Spring had finally showed up in our town. Last week we were still running the heater, and this week we’re sweating in 80+ degrees. Last week, there were no blossoms on the trees in the neighborhood. This week, the blossoms are everywhere. […]
I think I’ve mentioned a time or two that four nights in the hospital kinda messed up most of our Spring Break plans. Luckily, I have an awesome sister who stepped in and redeemed the last few days of the week. Not only did she take my four younger kids for 2 1/2 days (where […]
As Spring Break approached, I tried to come up with as many half-day outings as possible to keep my kids sufficiently entertained. I figured out how I could wake up early (but not as early as I do on school days) and get a few hours of work done before dedicating the rest of the […]
When I think of San Diego, I think of beaches and sun and zoo animals. I had no idea that there was so much beauty just beyond the city limits. (That’s not to say that there isn’t beauty within the city of San Diego….That came out wrong!). While I was in San Diego last weekend, […]
Reese had a birthday this week, and by some streak of birthday luck got to spend the two days before her birthday with her out-of-state cousins. Since the cousins were in town, we decided to cut into the birthday cake a day early and share it with the extended family (and as a side note, […]
Last weekend was one of the best weekends I’ve had in a long time. I admit I was a little stressed going into it - there was so much I had to fit in to one day. A baptism, a birthday party, a photo shoot, and a dinner to top off the night. CandyMan was […]
I had big plans to take my camera out today, take some pictures, and make a collage of all of the green things I could find. I’m desperately trying to find the beauty around me. Honestly, February is an ugly month. And then KitKat came home wearing a green scarf, and I changed my mind. […]
Today has been an insanely busy day. For a person who spends the majority of the day on the computer, the fact that I am just sitting down to my computer for the first time today - at 8:30 PM - is quite a telling sign. Between picking one sick child up from school an […]
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