Oh my poor blog, I have totally ignored you for the past, well, over a month. I've been busy tending to a sick toddler, being sick myself, panicking that Dan will get sick, and finding back up care for daycare when all the other kids are sick. Seriously, I think we've spent 90% of this [...]
Dear Mia, Today you've been on earth for 566 days. It sounds long, but often a day goes by in a minute. I still remember with surprising clarity what it felt like to meet you. The pain and also the shock, that you were real. The amazement that daddy and I created another person. Especially one as [...]
On Wednesdays I work (half a day) from home, and take care of Mia. It's the hardest day of the week. By far. Also the nicest, because, you know, babies. But also because I almost never have to put on actual pants. This morning by 11am I had already been awake for 6 hours, cleaned up [...]
"I felt each part of my life gave me respite from the other."- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Over the holiday break I spent way more time than usual with my toddler. Thanks to the holidays, my regular work-from-home day, and a horrible and ill-timed stomach virus I ended up staying home with Mia for 9 days [...]
My family has a LONG standing tradition of making and scrutinizing each other's New Years Resolutions. Back when we were kids it was done over a table filled with greasy Chinese Food. My Aunt Annie was the record keeper, carefully reading back the old, and writing down the new resolutions with exact wording (the details [...]
Since I've been pretty busy the last couple weeks, I asked Harley if she wanted to write a guest post on my blog. She's always complaining that I don't write about her, and that she never gets included in anything. Dogs sometimes! Anyway, she hesitantly agreed, but complained that she takes after her dad and [...]
Mia's cousin Dylan is just 6 weeks younger than her. I know they don't look 6 weeks apart, but I promise you they are. Even though Dylan is technically the younger cousin, he's never been the smaller cousin. Even on the day he was born he outweighed Mia by a little over a pound. The [...]
Wanna know the best thing about having kids? Dressing them up. I know I'm supposed to say rocking them to sleep, or slobbery open mouth kisses or tiny little voices that say "I wuv yous." But, c'mon. Can you even handle this?!! Since Mia was born I've been obsessed with dressing her in stylish baby [...]
Hello long lost blog. It's been a while, hasn't it? I have a good excuse though - 25 of them, actually. Houseguests. They came for Thanksgiving and despite the absolute craziness of preparing a 2000 square foot house to accommodate 28 people for a gigantic meal, it was fantastic. We had a huge snowstorm, lost [...]
Ahhh...the sunroom. It sounds like such a relaxing, lovely room in a house. When we bought our house in Cumberland and I told people it had a sunroom they usually reacted with something to the effect of - "Really? Wow - I'm jealous!" Until they actually saw it, that is. The sunroom is where the previous [...]
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