Tonight, as we were putting the girls to bed, I cradled Abbi onto my lap and told her that tonight was her last night  as a five year old. That tomorrow she would wake up and be six. She instantly got a pouty look on her face and started holding back her tears. She told [...]

I pulled photos of Abbi and Zoe at their births from my iPhoto library the other day to see how each of them compared to Talon.  To see who he might truly look like.  What do you think?

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Some time in the next week or two these two sisters will have their lives rocked as they welcome home their new baby brother.  I love how much they love each other and take care of each other (most of the time) and I’m sure that bond will only tighten as baby brother embeds himself [...]

Today is my little girl’s birthday! 5 years old!  I have no idea where the last five years have gone.  I still remember holding that sweet little baby, snuggling with her as she nuzzled her little fuzzy head into my neck.  Today though I will be sneaking snuggles with my little girl wherever I can. [...]

Last weekend, when we were over visiting my family for my cousin’s graduation party, my parents ended up buying my girls a swing set.  It’s something we had been looking at for a while and, well, grammy and papa decided to spoil two little girls! The instructions, or at least the signs at the store, [...]

This is Miss Angela. Everyone say “hi”! I met Angela four and a half years ago when she was a freshmen in college and I was a new mom.  I was looking for someone to watch Abbi, then 9 months old, for a few hours each week while I ran errands or went to appointments [...]

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As our kids grow up, we as parents love to play the game of “she/he got this from me and that from her/his father.”  It’s almost like a badge we award ourself for passing on admirable traits to the next generation.  The flipside of this game is admitting when we passed on our less-than-desirable traits [...]