International Day of the Midwife is this weekend, and I’m very excited about the art installment which will be part of our local Birth & Baby Fair. As part of the festivities the BBRN is suggesting sending a thank you note to your midwife. I thought as part of that I would post Junah’s birth [...]
A Birthday Christmas Tree
Friday was Jason’s birthday and the kiddos were both very excited all that day. Friday is what we call a “home day” (Junah is a very routine oriented person, she’ll often ask at bedtime, “what day is it tomorrow?” with the response being either “preschool day”, “home day”, “Maggy Day” or “Grandpa Day“) so the [...]
Train Tracks
Trains and train tracks are big in our house right now. The first thing Ezra wants to do every morning is, “build a train track, Momma!” We have a giant bucket of wooden tracks that is usually upended in our livingroom with tracks and trains scattered everywhere. This boy loves his trains so much, and [...]
Five! Year Old Girl
My girlie turned five yesterday! Five! It seems like such a big milestone–one requiring an exclamation point not just when I write it but when I think it, “She’s five! Five!” What with other things occupying my mind (and lowering my abilities), Saturday night rolled around and I hadn’t made her a gift. We had [...]
Cousins Are So Much Fun!
I grew up in a big family. Each of my parents have one brother and four sisters, and nearly all of them had children. And most of those children have children (and one of those children has a child!). That means I have a lot of cousins. A lot, a lot. And having so many [...]
nine months
My baby is nine months old! It is hard to believe that we're three-quarters of the way to a year. It is equally hard to believe that we were ever a family of three. Ezra is a mover. Have I written that here before? People often comment that he tries to dive out of their arms and [...]
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