Mama’s Lazy – Let’s Match!

Go figure, we’ve had a few sick days here at our home. Last week it was an allergic reaction to a Halloween oreo with orange stuffing (don’t ask), this week it’s fighting a cold due to the crazy lady at the pharmacy. PK has missed a couple days of school; and while this bums here [...]

H1N1: If we didn’t have it then, we surely have it now.

Yesterday I experienced one of the most traumatic, scaring experience in my life. The kind of tragic event that you immediately want to forget, but know you will carry it with you to your death bed. It happened in public, at the grocery store pharmacy. I was picking up a prescription (for a noncontagious aliment, [...]

And She will be called Cholula

In this quest to figuring out baby #3′s name, many of you have told me that you have named your children after people/places/things that are of importance to you. I think this is an awesome idea – if you have surrounded yourself with people that have cool names. People that mean a lot to me [...]

Perfectly Timed Teasing?

Last night, I learned that PK is being teased because of her name at school. Her real name is Piper. We all know Piper rhymes with Diaper. Looking back, it was only a matter of time. Talk about a blow to my heart, I’m so sad that kids are being mean to my daughter and [...]

No, I’m not trying to smuggle.

Like any good Midwestern family, on a crisp and sunny Saturday morning; we headed out to the orchard for a little pickin’. We filled our bags with carefully selected apples. We picked the biggest pumpkins our arms could carry. We even got muddy and felt good about it. And yes, I may have been asked [...]

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