My girls are always on the go.  They have an over-abundance of energy, most days, and getting some quiet-snuggle time with either of them is very rare. But then bedtime comes along and I finally get a few moments with each of them alone and I get my snuggle moments! After I finish giving Zoe [...]

A full night of uninterrupted sleep is very rare in our house.  Or at least it has been for the past year and a half.  Zoe, our youngest, has never been a good sleeper.  She didn’t start consistently sleeping through the night until she was well over a year old.  Just about the time she [...]

Someone please tell me how it’s possible that I have a four year old!  That’s right, my baby turns four today.  And she is so excited about! I think this is the first birthday where she was actually anticipating her birthday.  She’s been asking (since Halloween) when it would be her birthday.  We told her [...]

I’m always looking for fun (and cheap) things to do with the girls.  And especially things we can do as a family!  So, imagine my delight when I saw that a magic show was going to be at our rapidly-becoming-vacant mall!  Magic show?  Great!  Live baby lions and tigers? SUPER!  Free?  We are so there!!! [...]

With the unseasonably warm November weather here in Michigan this weekend we decided to finally climb Mt. Pisgah.  It’s sad to say that this was our first time making the trek but at least we finally did it! (Zoe in her pigtails. Of course the pigtails didn’t stay in very long!) Mt. Pisgah isn’t actually [...]

I grew up in Northern Michigan, where the snow starts falling the first of September and doesn’t stop until the first of June.  However, leaving in Southern Michigan has made me weak.  Weak I TELL YOU! Saturday night was down right cold!  And if I hadn’t risked disappointing a very cute Snow White, I would [...]

I’ve written [here] before about how Abbi has begun to notice the difference between how mom and dad look.  I giggle about how she would say that daddy had a “tail”.  I’m even giggling right now.  But don’t worry folks, my day has come. A few weeks ago Abbi started pulling at the neckline of [...]

A week ago I wrote about Abbi’s transition into preschool and how, day by day, there were fewer and fewer tears when I dropped her off each morning.  Well, today there were no tears!  None! She was so proud of herself.  This morning she gave a kiss goodbye at the classroom door and said, “See [...]

We just wrapped up Abbi’s third week of pre-school and I’m beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel! Every day that I’ve dropped her off at school, except the first day (ironically enough), she has cried. She pleads with me to take her with me. She tries to convince me that [...]