Category: Parenting

  • Where I’ve Been

    Where I’ve Been

    It really has been forever since I posted last. Like 7 months forever. In the blogging world that really is forever. I have still been here and reading the sweet comments about the freezer cooking and replying to the lovely emails that some of you have sent. But I have been busy with life, so…

  • Not Your Usual Mother’s Day post

    Not Your Usual Mother’s Day post

    I remember when I was pregnant with Landon and we were setting up his nursery. I came across a lullaby CD we received at his baby shower and put it in, just so it was ready, and pushed play. I was sitting in the rocker, folding some of the new clothes and I had an…

  • {Exhaustion} How to cope with the first trimester with young children at home

    I’ve been quite absent here in the last few weeks. In case you missed it, we are expecting our third child. While I am not unfamiliar with the exhaustion of the first trimester, I am having to learn the whole new world of being pregnant while being a stay at home mom to two young…

  • Changes

    When trying to think of the many creative ways to announce the news we finally settled on this, a video of Landon. The plan was to have each set of parents and close family over and show them the “cute” video of Landon. Landon had different plans. Even though we really didn’t talk much about…

  • Bedtime Blues {how we made bedtime better}

    Bedtime Blues {how we made bedtime better}

    We’ve always had some form of bedtime battles with Landon – really since a few months after going to his big boy bed and discovering that he could get out of bed on his own. I am pretty sure our story is not alone. One more drink, potty one more time, down to I don’t…

  • Everyday Life {Illness and slowing down}

    Everyday Life {Illness and slowing down}

    This week has been very different. A forced different as Riley has been sick all week. He woke up Saturday with a fever and worsened cough (he’s had a cough for the last 3 weeks). We had planned to go to the pumpkin patch, so instead we stayed home and Brad and Landon did a…

  • Doctor Appointment Entertainment

    Doctor Appointment Entertainment

    Sadly I was in urgent care today. Riley’s had a bad cough from a cold that’s only getting worse. Since moving we haven’t been to a new urgent care facility, luckily (sort of) there’s one just around the corner from us. It’s part of Enloe Hospital’s “prompt” (that’s a joke) care facilities. As you may have guess…

  • On staying home {maybe longer now}

    On staying home {maybe longer now}

    At the begninning of the new school year I wrote about my feelings of displacement and how I missed being in a classroom. I really struggled with where my place in life should be. Living the life of a working mom and having a taste of a stay at home mom during my maternity leave…

  • Bad days are normal!

    Bad days are normal!

    I had a play date with a friend yesterday and we were having a wonderful conversation about naughty children. Ever have one of those? Yeah – I thought so. We were talking though about how the majority of blogs and stories you hear about people’s children is always the sweet, wonderful, well behaved stories. Now…

  • Rough days

    Rough days

    Preface: When looking for an image to go with this post, since obviously I was not in the “lets take a picture of my screaming child for my blog” mood I came across this website… weird but funny and bound to make you feel better if you’re having a bad day too, at least for…