This past Sunday I had the opportunity to be on the other side of the lens… the lens of Jon-Mark. We have been planning our yearly family photo session since April. We had originally decided on a date 3 weeks earlier but E’s ezcema flare up led us to postpone. Call [...]
Summer is here even if the weather is not cooperating. Come tomorrow afternoon school will be over and we’ll have a whole summer to get reacquainted with our kidlets. If you have a lot of time at home with them you might need some ideas. Below are a few sites I have come across that [...]
Today I picked up my 3-year-old from preschool and he had a special gift for me. The teacher informed me it was a Mother’s Day gift that each child had worked very hard on. My little guy was very excited to give it to me and when I asked him if I should wait to [...]
Mother’s Day….what do you really want…that’s what my kids keep asking…when I reply with good manners, helpful gestures and no fighting they roll their eyes and say yes but moooooooooommmmmmm what do you want? Honestly I love to get gifts but I would be just as happy without. What I love are the little things [...]
Mother’s day is nearly a week away. My daughter was born on Mother’s Day last year. My daughter’s first birthday is nearly a week away- how did that happen? I have been going through this exact thought process at least 4 times a day for the past couple days which has led me to realize that I have mixed feelings about this upcoming [...]
I went back to work last week and the wheels seriously came off the little vehicle that is our family. I know I will not be the first or the last mother to experience this but, it does not make it any less challenging. The worst part is, I only work part-time! I can only [...]
We took the boys swimming the other day and I have to say it was not a fun time. Things were just off from the start. The baby was fussy and my 3YO was jumping all over me and I could feel myself getting more and more annoyed. We weren’t even there for an hour [...]
It is pouring rain and I should be lounging around with my husband in a luxury hotel room in Seattle but instead I am sitting at my kitchen table in my pajamas and in desperate need of a shower. The best laid plans…
If you read my post last week you know that my biggest worry [...]