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Two yummy Crock Pot recipes
When my husband and I got married way back in 1999, someone gave us a slow cooker. I honestly don’t remember who it was. For the first few years of our marriage, it was packed away in my parents’ garage …
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A family Valentine’s Day
A few years ago, before I had children, I had on Live With Regis and Kelly while getting ready for the day. It was Valentine’s Day and Kelly Rippa was talking about how she and her husband liked to spend …
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Advice for newlyweds (and the rest of us, too!): Part 2
In honor of Valentine’s Day, my current obsession with some wedding shows and my youngest first cousin getting engaged, I’m dispensing marital advice this week. On Tuesday, I gave you my first 10 pieces of advice for newlyweds and the …
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Advice for newlyweds (and the rest of us, too!): Part 1
I am the youngest in my family and only two of my seven first cousins are younger than I. Of the two, I really only remember the youngest one as a baby. So when he got engaged recently, I felt …
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Faith in more than a name
I was thinking about my daughter’s name this week. Maybe, in part, because I helped her address and sign 15 Valentine’s cards for her preschool classmates. But, it was also in part because I had some ups and downs in …
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20 random thoughts
I am very tired as I write this blog post. My little dude got sick for his first birthday party and isn’t sleeping well. A trip to pediatric urgent care on Sunday afternoon when his fever kept creeping up and …
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20 lessons from being a mom of two
My baby boy turns 1 today. Cliche as it may be, I must say that time really does fly. I mean, I feel like I seriously just found out I was pregnant. And now here we are celebrating one year. …
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A good mom moment
Sometimes I have good mom moments. Many times I have survival mom moments. Sometimes I have bad mom moments. Sometimes I have guilty mom moments. Many times I have exhausted mom moments.
Those good mom moments are part of what …
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Throwback Thursday to a year ago
If you have read my blog before with any regularity, you will know that I oftentimes can wax nostalgic. So if I tell you that my son is turning 1 a week from today, you can guess my line of …