Santa, Postponed

Olivia is finally at the age where she remembers. She remembers when I tell her we can play outside after lunch, and that tomorrow she’s going to daycare, and when Daddy promises her she can have chocolate when she wakes up from her nap. We’ve been talking about going to…

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Why All Parents Need To Read The Emotionally Healthy Child

Edit: Congratulations to Samantha and Jenny! They are the winners for the book giveaway! Last week I was in a department store with my daughter while my husband was trying on some clothes. We were looking at the Christmas ornaments and were having fun pointing out all the different ones.…

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Olivia at 3 years old

Let’s talk about this little girl who’s THREE! My baby is three. You guys, my love for her grows more fiercer every day. She makes me laugh, she makes me want to pull my hair out. We did her birthday party this weekend so if you missed the post you…

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Young and Wild and THREE! (Olivia’s birthday party)

I think I’m getting better at this whole throwing a birthday party thing. We had 20 people gather in our house to celebrate this peanut again with taco salads and Costco cake and it was pretty much perfect, except that I wish I would have gotten more photos. Do you…

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Annual North Shore Family Vacation (Mostly In Photos)

With everything that was going on with the transfer, I kept pushing aside putting together this post on when we went to the North Shore at the end of September. But I wanted to talk about it here because it shows how incredible my life can be sometimes when we…

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