Last week I got a call that I hoped to never receive: an abnormal freckle had come back from the lab testing positive for melanoma. Skin cancer. Melanoma runs in my family and it has always been something that I’ve been extremely scared and cautious about. For those of you who do not know as […]
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It has been ages since I’ve done a Day in the Life post – over two years in fact! While life doesn’t exactly feel the same sort of hectic as it did in the newborn days and the stressors are certainly different than the one-year days, life remains busy with two 3-year-olds. I think it’s always interesting to […]
The girls will be heading into PK-3 in just a couple of weeks and we’ve made the decision to split them into separate classrooms. I’m really not sure if this will be the right decision for the girls or not, and I figure it may help me to get my thoughts down as to why […]
It has been a couple of months since I last posted here because things have been really hectic for the Starfish family. We recently purchased a house here in Lexington and have been dealing with packing and moving with two three-year-olds. It’s been an overwhelming and somewhat frustrating time in our lives. Adding to the […]
Another year has passed – Lilly and Audrey are three! In the Starfish household, I call the period from early May to early June “birthday season.” With the girls born five weeks apart, we have five exhausting exciting weeks to celebrate our little girls. Audrey’s birthday marks the conclusion of the latest birthday season for […]
Over Memorial Day weekend, we celebrated the girls’ third birthday with a party at our home. Given that my biggest bonding time with the girls are our moments reading together, I’ve stuck with a children’s book classic for all of their birthday parties so far. Their first birthday party was in the theme of Pat […]
Birthday season is upon us once again in the Starfish household. Lilly will turn three later this week, with Audrey following in early June. I’ve written over the past year about some of my struggles handling two, two-year-olds, but there were so many wonderful things about the past year as well. I wanted to take […]
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