“Mom, can you make me eggs that are flat and either hard or runny?” I laugh. “Are those called fried or scrambled? I can’t remember!” “Fried, honey.” “Can you make me fried eggs that are runny?” I fried her eggs. I broke one in the pan. It’s the stove’s fault, I’m sure. (Really, it’s not […]

We moved rooms around today. I decided to put all the beds in the small bedroom, and all the dressers and toys in the front, larger bedroom. Before I started I figured if it didn’t work, I’d move it back. Having moved three dressers and a set of bunk beds from one room to the […]

Let me start with a disclaimer – we live in town. Not a bad neighborhood from anything we’ve seen, but we’ve got neighbors. Lots of them. We went for a walk today. The kids had been itching to go for a bike ride, it’s been well below freezing for many days now, and it’s finally […]

With Blaine gone, I let Eden sleep with me last night. She was thrilled. This morning, I told her that she was a great bed companion – I really expected to be pushed out of bed, kicked, something, but she did great. Her reply? “Yeah, but you kept taking the blankets. I kept having to […]

In the dressing room at Target:“Mom, your belly looks kinda like fireworks.”What?!“You know, your belly button is the middle and the lines are like the fireworks.”Be still, my beating heart. The words I’ve so longed to hear.“Eden, YOU gave me those lines.”“So did Liberty and Sterling and Ruby, right Momma?”“Yeah, they helped too.” Way to […]

I looked up the word “resolution”. I typed it into dictionary.com, to be exact. I have a dictionary floating around the house somewhere, but I didn’t bother to find it. That’s so… yesterday. 🙂 At any rate, I was wondering if resolve means to decide to do something differently, or if it just means to […]