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Another Christmas is over and now it’s time to see how well Santa did with the present choices. Gifts are my love language so I like to think I’m pretty good at gauging what gifts my kids will like. I spend a lot of time during the year saving ideas for their birthdays and Christmas. […]

One of the moments that sticks out to me, after I had M, was when I was getting dressed to go get my staples out. It was my first time putting on real clothes to leave the house, having lived in a nursing tank and pyjama pants for about four days. I was very swollen, still, […]

We did it! We have about a month left until Jackson’s third birthday, and I can officially say that we are a pacifier-free home. My goal was to get it done before he turned three, so I’m really thrilled to be done with the whole ordeal. I really had no idea what to expect when […]

I have written in posts this month about how happy this holiday season has been for me. I truly have never experienced more joy and happiness than I have this December, my first with my baby girls. But now that Christmas has come and gone, can I just say how tired I am? “Tired” really […]

We recently had a disastrous morning — well, frankly, we’ve had a LOT of disastrous mornings since we brought A home, but this one was especially bad. I can’t carry anything heavier than the baby, so Mac Daddy has been soloing preschool drop-off and pickup, and it hasn’t been easy to get M out of […]

A couple months ago, Lion moved up from the toddler room to the preschool. We were thrilled because as the youngest in his cohort (he has an August birthday; the others in his class turned two-years-old in April-July), he missed his friends and desperately wanted to move up as he waited for a space to […]

A week ago I took a pregnancy test around 6:00 AM, when my whole house was quiet, and to my great shock, I saw two pink lines. I woke up Mr. Cotton Candy to tell him the news, and then it was on with our day…we had a ton of cleaning and organizing to do […]