Miss Independent is currently into painting her own nails. (Obviously we’re using the term “nails” loosely here). She also likes to use all the colors. So thank God for the genius who invented kid’s nail polish that washes off everything … Continue reading →

Have you ever taken your over-tired kids to an evening birthday party for your grandpa while your husband was off having a lovely time at a football game instead? Have you ever had to keep your two-year-old and four-year-old confined … Continue reading →

I do not know what one is supposed to do with a year of preschool art. I do know, it is exactly like ripping out a mother’s heart to throw it away. I know this from personal experience. Since it … Continue reading →

For the record, Jim had his hesitations about this. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

The funny thing about full-time work? Someone has to watch the kids. Enter preschool. This is the only thing about accepting this gig that made me nervous. Hadley has been known to have us paged out of every single church … Continue reading →

We completely forgot to tell you that we raised butterflies. From scratch. Everything went exactly as the directions predicted and before we knew it we had five, healthy, beautiful, well-adusted butterflies, ready to enter the real world. Leading me to … Continue reading →