"Here's the remote. You can pick a new channel if you don't like that one..." "So let me get this straight... I'm going to spend the next 90 minutes lying in this big cushy dental chair not moving and watching Mexico life house-hunters on the ceiling, and the only catch is that you will put... Continue Reading →

"Mom, I like how Ethan sticks out his tongue when he's concentrating!" Fresh from a diaper change my little two year old works so hard at scooping the dried macaroni out of the box into his tiny cooking pot. It's the only age where it's still cute to wander around clad in a t-shirt and... Continue Reading →

To my baby who is no longer a baby... You were my fastest and most convenient birth. We called the midwife by 8 am, and stopped for coffee for Dad at 9 am. We got our own room at the hospital at 10:30 am, and by noon you were on my chest looking up at... Continue Reading →

I know better. I really do. I know I'm not supposed to leave the start of dinner preparation until 4:57 p.m. Especially after we've run down to the pool... because I clearly remember being a child and thinking my body was in starvation mode after moderately swimming for 30 minutes. We foolishly came back upstairs... Continue Reading →

I remember my very first Mother's Day, that one where I had my first son growing inside of my tummy. It felt so weird to even give myself the title of Mom, and I'd smile awkwardly and blush a lot when people would wish me a Happy Mother's Day. It kind of felt like I... Continue Reading →

Have you ever gone back and visited a place that was a huge part of your life, but you had forgotten a lot about it until you found yourself walking the very paths of that same place? Last week I took my kids to a 'learn all about the salmon life cycle' science class at... Continue Reading →

I sliced open the third apple of the snack hour and began removing the core and the skin for the picky eaters at my table. Suddenly there it was, staring up at me. A tiny little seed inside the apple had sprouted, and a little apple tree was already in the beginning stages of its... Continue Reading →

I didn't know your duvet could literally disintegrate and explode inside your zipped up duvet cover... until yesterday. Perhaps I had been a little suspicious from time to time due to a random floating feather. Also, why was the bottom of the blanket so fluffy when the middle was so flat? It must just be... Continue Reading →

"Mom, I barf all over my Spider-man pillow. All over it Mom, so much barf!" The barf notification. I'm a night sleeper, it's when I like my sleep to occur, and when I try to make my sleep occur... but that phrase will most assuredly make me shoot out of my bed in the midnight hours... Continue Reading →