You’ll have to excuse me for a moment as I got into full proud-mom-mode and brag about my daughters’ talents. Last Wednesday night I was working on a baby gift for my sister’s baby shower (that I was going to miss) and my girls decided they wanted to make things for the baby, too. Lydia,…
Chocolate chip cookies. They’ve been my favorite food for as long as I can remember. My nanny used to make them for us. Then we started making them for ourselves, along with a huge mess for MY mama. When I was pregnant with my first child my weakness was Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies from…
I was making a roast beef dinner one night that called for French Onion Soup. While I was at the store shopping I was sad to discover that pretty much all store-bought French Onion Soup is glutened. Normally I make my own soups and such but I just wanted to throw this together and forget…
I love independence in my children. It might be my favorite part of being a mom. Watching them learn and grow and do things on their own. I think we might be ahead of the curve on what we allow our kids to do (or insane, depending on your perspective). They use knives and the…
Spring break means many hours with “nothing to do”. My kids prefer mess-making to housecleaning (weird, right?) and they are experts at it. Isaiah is my little chef in the making and Alayna loves to bake. Together they made three dozen soft pretzels and one royal mess. I don’t know if they cleanted it all…
Before you roll your eyes at me, know that one of my kids is yelling from the other room that it is ridiculous she should be expected to watch a movie on our “tiny” 40 inch TV instead of the projector that is “the only way” and my other child is bugging me for the…
Thank God for photographs. Sigh . . . My husband, Daddy to my children, holding hands and holding babies. Maybe this photo doesn’t swell your heart like it does mine . . . But I am sure you have a photo that does. For me it is a reminder that: I am beyond lucky to…
What a great way to wake up. The kids standing by my bed, asking, “Can we check to see if there’s school today?” and then the resulting screams and shouts for joy. They moved on to making crepes (and a mess) and headed directly outside to work on Isaiah’s super-fort. As a child, I ADORED…
I love my kids. They crack me up. They love to prove to me the wonderment and value of restricting their electronics usage by entertaining themselves in creative and hilarious ways. It happens every time we crack down. You’d think they’d catch on! In the summer we have zero electronics use, which sounds like insanity,…
Yum yum. Chocolate milk is a delicious part of childhood. Not something you should drink everyday, of course, but a treat now and then? You bet. I haven’t purchased the store stuff, Hershey’s, Ovaltine, etc for so long I have no idea what they put in it. Do you? But we can guess it isn’t all wholesome and natural. So ….