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"What?  I'm just sitting here reading a book with my owl hat on.   Doesn't everyone do that?" This kiddo gives ...

Well, the Stinker Man is 7 months old and sits up great.  No signs of crawling yet and I am TOTALLY fine with that.  He'll crawl whe...

Howdy folks!  I know it's been a while and I am scolding myself for that as we speak...errrr, read.  I thought I would jump back into t...

Cole:  6 months Rapunzel (AKA: Ava) 3 years Well, contrary to popular belief we are still alive and kicking over here.  I have ...

because she does goofball things like this and then laughs hysterically at herself.   Sorry for the lull in posts.  Things are good here.  ...

I was getting Ava and Cole dressed this morning in an attempt to get to the store before the rain hit our area. Me :  Oh, no!  It's ra...

Ava's at the point in her playing that is really fun for me to watch and eavesdrop on.  She makes things up and has her animals talk to ...

elde We're preparing for a winter storm here in St. Louis.  From the way people act, you would think we are going to be under 6 feet of...

For a long time now (we're talking a couple months...at least), I've felt the way on the inside that poor sick Ava looks on the outs...

With a little less than 6 weeks until our little man is officially due my husband has been "nesting" so that means that I have sta...

We had a very busy weekend.  I'm exhausted and it's only Monday.  Although that's not saying much because it doesn't take a...

Ava : "Mommy, when is baby brother going to pop out?" Me :  "Pop out?" Ava : "Yeah." Me :  "He'll b...

I think almost everyone's New Year's resolutions (if you make them) have to do with eating more healthy, exercising, etc.  I know my...

I 've been a little under the weather since Saturday.  The busy weekend just wiped me out.  When Monday finally rolled around I declar...

Image: Pinterest Our furnace stopped heating today so lets just say we are busting out the sweaters, warm socks, blankets, etc. until we ca...

So I'm going to go there with today's post.  I'm talking about religion.  Actually, it's more about my church and some of t...

Image Source: Anthropologie Penguin does a great job of making their books attractive.  Their classics are beautiful and now they have a...

There are plenty of reasons why my mom is so loved.  This is one of those small things that she does that means so much to me.  The latest c...

The weather has been super nice here lately (in the 70s) so let's just say that not much has been getting done in the house. We hav...