...come traipsing down the stairs with about a cup of hand lotion plastered all over your hands and arms and pajamas and say "Mommy, I have some soap on me." And then, when I go upstairs to find MORE hand lotion all over the walls, the stair rail, my bed-side table,...

The other day, I was playing the Game of Life with the girls. It's a board game where you have a little car that you drive along this path through the various stages of Life. (Don't get me going on how restrictive the stages of Life are - there is, for example, no...

Another sign of spring - the lambs have been born! Now that Grandpa's gone and so are his sheep, we had to visit the fair to find this one.

Sometimes I wish I had a truth-metre – some contraption that worked like a smoke detector and beeped every time truth was in the air. I want to know truth, but I’m not always sure I’m good enough at recognizing it. Sometimes, as I grow into myself, I come to the...

At our house, springtime means SLURPEE-TIME!

Julie, my word girl who learned to talk almost as soon as she could breathe, and who didn't really learn to read so much as absorb it, is currently into backwards words. On a frequent basis, she'll tell me what a random word is backwards. And now she's starting in on...

I can’t waitto meet youlittle oneI can’t wait to hold my cheek against yoursto kiss the top of your headand let you wrap your little fingersaround my thumbI wonderwill you be dark like your daddywill you have red hair like your grandpawill your laugh ring out with...

she bringsroasted tomato and basil soupa panini sandwichand fresh pineappleit tastes like friendshipshe wants to hearabout my tripabout my kidsabout the quiet thingsthat burden my hearti pour the teawe add the sugari tiptoe down the hallto peak at my childfinally...

I just HAVE to tell this funny story, 'cause if I don't write it down, I'll probably forget and it's worth remembering...We've been so thrilled that Maddie decided to start pooping on the potty. We thought it was just one of those toddler things - deciding in HER...

The geese are here! The geese are here!!! Now, I realize that those people who've never lived in the cold north will not appreciate the significance of this, but let me just say...THIS MEANS SPRING IS COMING! The snow is starting to melt and the geese are finding...