Saturday evening, we all went to a good friend’s parents’ house to go fishing and bbq. The kids had never been fishing before, but T. had been wanting to take them since we got married. They were all pretty excited.This was the first fish they caught. The first of, like, […]
This is my first time doing a prompt from Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. I hope I do it justice!One of the prompts was “Your Top 10 Summer Don’ts”, so here are mine.10. DON’T go anywhere at dusk without dousing yourself with bug spray. This is Kansas, people, and the mosquitoes […]
A few days ago, Ervin started smiling!These pictures were taken in the dark, because of course he did it at about 11pm. I may have *possibly* stayed up another half an hour or so, just smiling at him so he’d smile back.T, like many husbands I think, can’t wait for […]
My boy is two months old today. *sniffle*He had a doctor’s appointment this morning and he now weighs 9 lbs 11 oz! This is especially exciting because I’ve been exclusively nursing him for about a week and a half. I felt like it was going well this time around, but […]
It is the first day of summer vacation and even before breakfast, this happened:Do you see the purple bump in the middle of the forehead? Apparently the top of the dresser, the floor, and my son were in cahoots.It’s going to be a long break.
Yesterday, we took our first semi-long trip with Ervin. We celebrated T’s Grandma’s birthday in Hillsboro, a couple of hours away. Of course, I was a little nervous about it. Either we were going to get there really late because Ervin got hungry part way there and we would have […]
Today was Henry’s last day of preschool. HOLY COW! How did the year go by so fast?! It’s crazy. You know what else is crazy? We have four kids now and the OLDEST is finishing preschool. Crazy (I know you’re thinking it, too!).Everything he’s done at school this week has […]
I’m in a funk. And not the good kind. I feel pretty weird saying that, since it’s my name and all, but I don’t know how else to say it. My poor kids have to deal with some major mood swings these days. I get pretty angry and irrational at […]
Wednesday would have been my big brother’s 35th birthday. Our baby, Ervin, was born six weeks ago Thursday, which means that Luke died six weeks ago Friday.Ervin was born on March 24. It was a scheduled c-section, so we knew the date for a couple of months, and I had […]