One, two…buckle my shoe. Three, four…shut the door. Five, six…pick up sticks. Seven, Eight…lay them straight. Nine, ten…begin again. With thoughts of adding to our family as the constant front runner in my thought pattern, I can’t help but recognize all of the new “beginnings” we will be facing when and if a new child […]

Dear Noah, Another month older, another letter. Another realization that your time as a child is passing by so much faster than I had hoped it would. You’ll be starting preschool in a few months. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with myself when you aren’t around all day to play with. There […]

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Are you new to Me Time Monday? Click here to find out what it’s all about! And make sure to subscribe via RSS to stay updated on all the latest! After pre-writing and scheduling this post the other day, we jumped ahead and did something that the husband and I neither one had the intentions […]

Hope all of you wonderful ladies have a wonderful day today with your children and your families. My mom is in Alabama, but I wanted to give her a little shout-out to let her know how much I love her! We don’t always see eye to eye on things, and we have most definitely had […]

For the longest time, I never completely grasped the whole meaning behind that “is the glass half empty, or half full” saying. What do you mean is it half empty of half full? Does it matter? There is only half a cup of liquid in that glass. Who cares if it’s half empty or full… […]

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Courtney from Click it up a Notch is hosting [along with two other fabulous bloggers] a link-up this month. The purpose? To show off our FAVORITE photos of our kiddos from January-March of this year. I admit I had a hard time coming up with my favorite. I’ve taken a ton of pictures of the […]

November 1, 2008 So far, motherhood is coming and going with me. I feel like I’m starting to get the hang of things every once in a while, then I hit a snag and feel as if I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. Noah is a wonderful baby so far. He is sleeping […]

No. This post is not a review of the Lifetime movie with the same name as my post. This post is more about the stigma and pressure that society places on the shoulders of parents; in particular the mom’s. There are tons of rules about how we are “supposed” to raise our children. Without question […]