I caught a few minutes of Dave Ramsey today in the car and the one call that I did hear was about gift giving. What are your gift giving practices? Do you buy everyone a gift at Christmas and on birthdays? Do you draw names at Christmas? Or do you just avoid giving gifts all [...]

Abbi has been in this phase lately where she wants to do everything just like mom or dad, usually dad. She brushes her teeth like dad. She takes a nap like dad. She gets dressed and puts on her shoes and coat like dad. She truly is his little clone. Honestly though, it does make [...]

Although my official due date to have this baby is still up in the air, it is certainly sometime at the very beginning of April. That would be approximately 7 – 8 weeks away. That does not seem like much time at all. YIKES! As much as I enjoyed Abbi arriving early when she was [...]

Just like most people, I like to find ways that technology can make my life easier. More specifically, since most of my time is spent being a mom, I like to find ways that technology can make being a mom a little more fun, a little bit more efficient, and, well, a lot easier. Thus [...]

This past Thursday I had to take my laptop into the Apple store to have them replace the battery (free) and replace one of the fans. I’ve/we’ve been dealing with this for months now. I have had to keep my laptop plugged in at all times because the battery would not work. Kind of sucks [...]

It has been so long since the hubs and I have had a date night. Too LOOOOOONNNNNGGG! So, Angela so graciously agreed to babysit last night on super short notice so Tim and I could have a little out-of-the-house-without-child time. We decided to just go see a movie with our few free hours. We saw [...]

The nice thing about knowing that we’re having another girl is that we really don’t need to buy anything (aside from diapers). We have TONS of clothes, many of which Abbi did not even wear, sitting down in the basement and we have everything still left over from Abbi — bottles, car seat, etc. The [...]

All of a sudden I’m feeling like the end of this pregnancy is so close. Some days I feel like I’ve been pregnant forever and then other days I feel like it’s gone by so fast. I’m anxious to have this pregnancy over with (mostly anxious about how the labor and delivery will go) for [...]

I believe my house is on the upswing of this sickness. Thankfully it really only lasted a few days for each of us, but, when you multiply that by three, it felt like forever. All three of us are still coughing a little but we’re all feeling much better. Despite feeling like death on Thursday, [...]