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The kids were home for two weeks over Christmas break. My house was mad, crazy, chaos. RC cars raced across my floors, my table (and floors) were covered with slime and all the ingredients to make slime. Endless amounts of slime. Tiny lego pieces were found in almost...

I don't think I can summarize the last 6 years in one blog post. If that is what you're waiting for than I'm going to have to disappoint you.  Instead you can focus on the positive- I'm blogging again. What made me stop?  I can't say for certain, but I think it had to...

I just realized the last time I blogged was when we found out Hosanna was a girl and we were sharing her name. Sorry, I’m a slacker. I’m sure it has nothing to do with chasing three kids around and trying to keep the house clean. Honest, I’m just lazy. A lot has...

In case you were wondering, the author of this blog is still alive. She is a 20 week pregnant woman who has 3 kids. She is busy trying to keep the house clean and organized, while teaching her 5 year old and 3 year old (some days) as well as trying to keep her 15...

This blog a friend shared has got me thinking a lot about parenting. It’s called Motherhood as a mission field. It has a lot of good points, things I needed to be reminded of, things i probably need to remember daily. I don’t resent my kids that I am at home with...

No, this has nothing to do with Obama. It has everything to do with eating. Mainly the way my children eat. The way I let them eat. It all started when Caylee was about 18 months old or so. maybe earlier. She is really picky and instead of making her eat what we were...

I know I don’t blog enough, and I definitely don’t fill you in on the fun things Josiah is doing enough either. So here’s a funny “what Josiah can do” story. He was sitting on the floor in the livingroom eating a cracker, I had put on baby miracle for him (some baby...

Josiah is 9.5 months old. and in his 9 and a half months he has had two ambulance rides, one seizure, a spinal tap, tons of cultures and tests, an ultra sound, xray and CT scan. He’s had surgery and has his first broken bone.  Everyone told me boys are crazier than...

When I first started running way back in 2009 (2008?) It was purely because I needed to lose the weight I had gained during my pregnancy with Caylee (and Lexi) and we had no money for a gym membership. Running was free. Slip on some old clothes, some sneakers and get...

Seems life has just slowed down a bit. I’m finding less and less to blog about. I’m not sure if it’s because there’s not too much worth sharing, or if I just don’t have much desire to put my thoughts into words for you guys.  Really my days consist of normal life....

This year we decided to do a joint birthday party for the girls instead of having to go through the stress twice. Yah, we cheated. But the past two years Caylee has gotten our left over energy since we put so much into Lexi’s parties. This year we decided it would...

We’ve moved! Yah, I know, i didn’t warn you. We decided last Tuesday that we were going to move on the 31st. It was a very last minute decision, but we know it was what God wanted, and we are very excited about our new place. We looked at the house over a month ago,...

A few months ago I decided I had enough of the baby weight and started the process of trying to lose the weight I had gained when I got pregnant with Josiah. I was tired of being tired and tired of my clothes not fitting. I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to be happy,...

Monday I’m running my first 5K. I’m excited because this is my first race that is about racing, not just about finishing. Normally I have a time goal in mind, but it’s one that is easy to hit. This time it’s 3.1 miles, not 13.1 so I know finishing is not going to be a...

Today Josiah had tubes put in his ears, We’ve known for a month that he was going to get them done, they decided when he was 6 months old that since he had pretty much had an ear infection his whole life, he needed tubes. But they wanted to wait until he was 7 months...

First of all, if you’re single I’m really impressed that you’re reading my blog… but anyway. If you’re single and you’re looking for someone to marry I just want to share something that will make the rest of your life a little easier. Find someone who is passionate...

well, we finally did it. we own a mini van. we traded our 2003 taurus for a 2002 windstar. the van has 20K less miles than our car did, it was a lot dirtier inside, and so far the issues that we know about are going to be a lot cheaper to fix than the issues our car...

A lot has happened and I haven’t blogged about any of it! On the 25th Josiah turned 6 months old. That’s a half a year. It’s crazy to think it’s been that long since he was born. He’s getting pretty big, We went to the doctor 3 times last week (none of them were his...

My suspicions were confirmed, Josiah has an ear infection. The doctor set up an appointment for me to meet with the ENT (ear nose throat) to schedule tubes. He figured with my history of ear infections, and Caylee’s history, that it’s unavoidable due to me passing on...

and no I don’t mean the store. I’m referring to the lack of mentor-ship going on between older and younger people. Titus 2: 2-8  tells us Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be...

It’s been a bit over 3 weeks since we eliminated gluten from Caylee’s diet. I really didn’t notice a difference in her personality or sleeping or eating until Saturday night. We went out to eat at Famous Daves and ordered her mashed potatoes and corn on the cob. What...

not that it doesn’t happen often, because it does… but a few minutes ago Lexi showed me this: That’s a clump of her hair. She held it in one hand, and the scissors in the other. That was her way of protesting that I took the glitter away. She now is without scissors...

I miss being head over heals in love with God. Over the past two years I’ve had my ups and downs, months where I felt very close to Him, and months where I didn’t feel close at all. Seems like the busyness of motherhood makes it a little hard to really spend quality...