…aiden. we read a lot of junie b. jones books. let’s face it……..the girl is hysterical. the other night when we were having our family reading time, this is what went down. imagine this: they picked chase’s room as the gathering place for the story. i was on the bed. chase was (supposed) to be […]

i’m sure you remember the infamous walton’s bedtime routine. i never even watched this show…but i know how the family said goodnight. the siblings would all say goodnight to each other from their own rooms and beds. “goodnight john boy”, etc. well, last night as i was feeding annslee downstairs in the living room and […]

i am a lover of clothes, but am very different from most women in one particular area of fashion. i don’t love shoes. i don’t even really like shoes. i would go barefoot all the time if socially acceptable. i get by with 2 pair of flip flops all year round…..1 brown pair, and 1 […]

some years i don’t think about it at all. some years it is something i think about only a few times during the day. and some years, such as this one, i think about it the whole day…almost re-living it. january 19, 2001. 9 years ago today. arguably the most influential day of my life. […]

i’ve noticed that i am having difficulty keeping on top of things lately. quite frankly, i’m really not on top of anything and it’s been going on longer than just “lately.” all i can get accomplished (and by accomplished…i mean half-way done) is the clothes washed and dried and sometimes folded, food on the table […]

can we talk about houw cute these two dimpled darlins are? seriously. i love dimples. when i was little, i thought that i would have dimples if my cheeks were fatter. so…i ate ice cream every day to try to fatten them up. it didn’t work. so God decided to give me kids that had […]

we were at my parent’s house during the first part of december when i came across a little, lost treasure. and it is called THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER. this was a book that i fondly remember from my childhood, that i have found myself thinking about throughout the years, but had no idea that […]

last night, i went up to say goodnight to the kids after chad had tucked them in. before i opened chase’s door, i heard him talking to someone. i figured colton had snuck in there and that he was talking to him. but when i quietly opened the door to spy on them and their […]

look who’s happy… and really, really cute… and liking this… and these… and especially this.