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Meal time can often be a bit disastrous for our family.  What can I say — it’s a work in progress.  I have tried many different tricks to get them to behave at the table.  One of our most successful tricks has been to get them excited about the meal.  Sometimes I give them the [...]

I have not done an update post about my kids in the past. When I started blogging for Hellobee, all of my kids were past a year old. I figured I could do some updates for big milestones for each of the kids, so this is my first update for my daughter Lilly. She just [...]

Yesterday we took our kiddos to Disneyland. We did a half day, so we left just after lunch. When we got home, the kids still had tons of energy. (It doesn’t seem fair, even a half day tires me out but they have energy to spare). So we took the kids out to play on [...]

I am a bit of a picture addict.  I love taking pictures of my kids and having them professionally taken.  Usually if I am going to take the kids in to have their portraits taken, I put weeks, if not months, into planning their styling and how I want the pictures to look. I wanted [...]

This week is national infertility awareness week.  I have read that 1 in 8 woman will suffer from infertility.  I am one.  5 years ago in the midst of fertility treatments, I never would have dreamed that I would be sitting here with four children.   I so desperately wanted just one. I have read several [...]

I think of all my children’s birth stories, my daughter’s is the most normal.  My first son was adopted and my twins were so high risk. Lilly came into this world with no complications or stress. When I went in for my first OB appointment after taking a pregnancy test, I talked with my doctor [...]

There were several false starts to the birth of my twins. As I wrote in a past post, I was monitored very closely throughout my whole pregnancy. At 34.5 weeks my blood pressure went up and my pre-eclampsia was getting worse. There were some concerns on the heart monitors so I was sent to the hospital. [...]