June 1, 2020 Growing Little Love Thea is getting independent by giant leaps. I don’t do the whole months thing unless I have to (I love math, but “over one” is just as good as “fourteen point two five months” as far as describing my baby’s age goes) so when [...]
May 6, 2020 Monopoly Crazy Yes, my family is crazy. Maybe. We love board games – especially if it involves everyone. This is difficult as most games like battleships, mancala, and chess are two player or maybe four player like labyrinth, the mall game, trouble, spelldown, scrabble, and Lord of [...]
April 2, 2020 February Birthdays So for my entire life, until last year, I was the only February birthday in my family – by birth, then by marriage, and then including my children and the sister- and brother-cousins. I was the only February birthday! I had the whole month to [...]
March 31, 2020 Beautiful Beach Day I know by the time this gets published, we aren’t going to be allowed on our beautiful beaches anymore due to what my teens tease the history books will call “the corona shutdown,” but don’t judge us. Anyway, after making sure you understand that [...]
Stages To Come February 27, 2020 Life is lived in stages, seasons, steps… whatever you call it. It’s somewhat like a roller coaster with ups and downs. Our memories are made of snippets of this fun journey called life and when I’m feeling nostalgic, I like to look back at [...]
Read Me A Story! February 21, 2020 One of the things I like best in the whole world is to read books. Aloud. To children. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading personally too, but there is just something so amazing about getting to play all characters in a book [...]
A Girl and her Doggie February 19, 2020 Sometimes you choose a pet. You know, you excitedly go to the shelter or the pet store and the perfect friend snags your heart instantly. Sometimes you are fostering a litter of puppies and one looks up at you with a connection [...]
Open Gym Party for Decade Kick-Off - building memories in everything! [...]
February 13, 2020 Temporary Home Sometimes music just hits me. I love to listen to songs of all kinds. One of my newest favorites was from a movie we watched a little bit ago – “Speechless.” Even though as an analyst I understand that wouldn’t have been accurate for the [...]
Look out world! Here comes a full confident young woman who continually amazes her family! #ProudParent #WeLoveYou [...]