Happy birthday, sweet baby girl!

We spent the day celebrating our baby’s first birthday.  A year ago our beautiful baby girl was born, making a big brother out of our son and completing our family.  I can’t believe the year has gone by already.   I’m so happy to see her change and grow, but there is a tiny part of me that wants to hold her and say “not yet!”  I was so happy to have another baby in the house…it was...

Sweet nothings

After a particularly fretful morning last week, I put my son on the school bus, waved goodbye and thanked my lucky stars we had survived the morning.  One argument after another, feet dragging, you name it, we had it going on that morning and I was sure we would be too late.  Or that he would wake the baby in his attempts to put brakes on the morning’s progress.  One way or another, the wheels fell off the wagon, and we...

Coffee love

Does anyone remember when I looked like this on Twitter?  Way back when I was first trying to figure out what Twitter was all about, thinking, hmm…what could the appeal be?  (9 months and way too many tweets later, I’m hooked.) Well, anyway, then I got ribbed about being a “cup with legs” so I sucked it up and posted a real picture as my avatar.  But some days I miss my little cup...

School daze

I see him standing by his teacher and watch him jump and wave as he recognizes me.  She cautions him to wait until I’m closer, then as she sees me wave, she tells him to go.  He comes at a run, then slows to skipping as he gets closer. “Mommy!  We were outside!  And I was standing there!  And I saw you!  Did you see me?  Guess what we did today?  Do you know what I have in my backpack?  I love my new school…I...

Do you see what I see?

A cute holiday decoration that hubs decided to put in our powder room.  I love that he and the boy were taking over the decorating, but can I just say that it cracks me up to read “Do you see what I see?” as I go to…ahem…use the...