Want to know the first thing Sam said to me when he woke up this morning?
“I think we should get a new baby.  A girl baby. We should get a girl baby.”
And as if that wasn’t enough, just a few days ago Hubby came downstairs saying, “You know, I was just thinking about how fun [...]

Ingredients
four brand new, never-before-tried-by-you recipes
extremely limited time
a complete lack of necessary kitchen appliances
a three year old and a one year old
a rough ETA for the arrival of the majority of your in-laws
a husband who is to be surprised for this birthday extravaganza, leaving him completely bewildered as to why you would need 2 hours to [...]

The day has come: my baby is one year old.  I think I must be in denial, since I am currently speechless, which, as you know, is uncharacteristic for me.  Wasn’t it THIS summer that I was going to Dairy Queen every day while pregnant?  Wasn’t it just last night that my water broke in [...]

Today was your last day of being two.

(birth)
We went to the zoo, and you helped me push the stroller around.

(Halloween - 5 months)
We rode the train.

(crawling, first vehicle obsession)
You ran around with your friend and chased the geese.

(sick day)
You told me about nine times that tomorrow you wanted “chockat cake [...]

This week Sam said what I’ve been dreading for quite some time:  “I want a doggie.”  Oh boy.  And of course I can’t help but consider it.  I’m in trouble.
It’s all because we’ve been reading that Pretzel book about the dachshunds.  And tonight when we started reading it he said again, “I wish I had [...]

I’m going to grab this from Steph over at Adventures in Babywearing. I have many things I’ve been wanting to share and amazingly this covers several of them - so here’s what I’m into this month:
The Thing I’ve Been Working On The Most: Trying to find a balance. Things got bad enough [...]

A few little tidbits of info for those interested, because man, there is just no time around here anymore! How do those of you with more than one do it?
I didn’t get to have a VBAC, but the recovery from this cesaerean has been much easier (not that it’s fun by any means), and [...]