Not a day goes by that my girls are not dressed up as princesses, ballerinas, or as fairies.  They love to dress up.  And I love that it is something that they enjoy doing together! Fairy-Gram is an amazing online store that I came across one day on Mom Made That.  I’m pretty sure that [...]

I wasn’t sure exactly how the girls would react seeing their favorite characters in person as we got ready to go to the Playhouse Disney Live show.  It’s one thing to see them on the tv in the living room as cartoons.  It’s quite another to see them “live” and in person, dancing and singing [...]

Zoe is our second born and, as it stands right now, the baby.  She’s nearly 2 years old and, well, I’m just going to say it…I have the hardest time connecting with her.  It’s not the age that makes it so hard for me to connect with her, as it has been this way since [...]

It’s one of the best moments as a parent — hearing your child’s first word!  Especially if it is some version of “mom”!  We spend so much of their first year or so trying to get them to say words, words that we can understand, words that make us proud.  Then we spend the next [...]

My girls are always on the go.  They have an over-abundance of energy, most days, and getting some quiet-snuggle time with either of them is very rare. But then bedtime comes along and I finally get a few moments with each of them alone and I get my snuggle moments! After I finish giving Zoe [...]

Let’s just get this out there…Zoe is 20 months old and she still takes a bottle. I’ll give you a minute or two to gasp, think ill thoughts, and throw around the questions of how on Earth I could let her still take a bottle. Done?  Great. Let’s continue. I’ll start with the fact that [...]

I’m always looking for fun (and cheap) things to do with the girls.  And especially things we can do as a family!  So, imagine my delight when I saw that a magic show was going to be at our rapidly-becoming-vacant mall!  Magic show?  Great!  Live baby lions and tigers? SUPER!  Free?  We are so there!!! [...]

With the unseasonably warm November weather here in Michigan this weekend we decided to finally climb Mt. Pisgah.  It’s sad to say that this was our first time making the trek but at least we finally did it! (Zoe in her pigtails. Of course the pigtails didn’t stay in very long!) Mt. Pisgah isn’t actually [...]

I grew up in Northern Michigan, where the snow starts falling the first of September and doesn’t stop until the first of June.  However, leaving in Southern Michigan has made me weak.  Weak I TELL YOU! Saturday night was down right cold!  And if I hadn’t risked disappointing a very cute Snow White, I would [...]

When I first saw this clip from The Family Guy, I laughed.  Hard.  Then I wanted to cry because it could not have captured my life more perfectly.  Zoe is Stewie and we go through this scene multiple times a day.  Just change the location — the living room, the dining room table, the car, [...]