Things that are making me smile

Tessa, just generally. Cooing and smiling with Tessa. Washing my cloth diapers (no, I’m totally serious) Thinking about planning my garden The fact that recipes using milk and cheese and butter are seemingly no longer off limits My mom is paying for me to get my house cleaned The box of fruits and veggies from [...]

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Question

Is it odd that when I see the words “germ free” on a humidifier box, I immediately decide not to get that one because it’s full of chemicals?

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Meal planning

Could someone please explain to me why the simple job of planning what we’re going to eat nearly sends me into panic attacks? It’s not that hard…list a breakfast, lunch, and dinner and then buy what we need. But it’s sooooo restrictive to me, and I worry about having too much or too little food [...]

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Sick Day

We spent the entire day in jammies today. Everyone but Hannah and Tessa had a touch of a tummy bug of some kind, and Audrey ran a low fever for a few hours. Not exactly what I had pictured for the first Sunday Nick had off in…oh…6 months. But it could have been worse! Everyone [...]

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Stuff

Beware. This is one of those “vomit all over you” posts. Well, that sounds too negative for what it will be. What I really mean is that I’m feeling rather cooped up, rather cut off, rather lonely. Haven’t had many people to share my thoughts with, as of late. This always eventually produces a long [...]

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On Facebook…

Came across this today. I can’t help but fully agree. Facebook becomes an addiction for me. And I don’t think I’m the only one. In just minutes (more minutes than I really have!) you can get a sense of connection with people all over the world! You can see what is going on with people [...]

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Weekly Update

Christmas Shoes I don’t feel like doing this today. Not sure why. Maybe I’ll figure it out? 1. My Gramma is here this weekend from Southern CA. We’ve been having fun hanging out and eating out. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen her. Wish Grampa could have come too. She bought the girls [...]

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Weekly Update

Story behind this one: the girls played outside yesterday while Nick put the Christmas lights on the house, and when I looked out the window this is what I saw. That’s what we get for being too lazy to put the top back on the sandbox during last week’s snowstorm…Audrey sure thought this was fun. [...]

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