Category: Family Life

About a week before Christmas, I had a weird encounter.  One afternoon as I sat on the couch, Sugarplum came up to me, cupped her hands around her mouth, bent down by my stomach and …

I stopped watching the local news shortly after we returned to South Florida. Hubby still sometimes watches and it’s just a run down of horrible things: double shooting, armed robbery, fatal shooting, fatal car accident, …

My Winter Car Seat Safety post has been pretty popular and I’m glad so many people are taking the time to learn about keeping their little ones warm and safe in the car. But as another …

This weekend was pretty uneventful.  Other than taking down the Christmas lights and lounging around the house we didn’t get much accomplished.  But we did have one very big milestone: Doodle’s first haircut! We’ve been …

A this year comes to a close and I take the time to refelct on the past 12 months, I feel somewhat surprised to be able to smile. This year has definitely not been the …

Honeybun has always been an excellent sleeper (we have about a billion baby pictures to prove it!)  She slept through the night at 9 weeks old (9 pm to 6 am) and aside from a …

I am the proud mommy of a shelter pet.  Our youngest kitty, Franklin, was adopted from a rescue group when we were living in Oklahoma.  He was the scrawny, scared little kitty and even the …

I was recently featured in an article on Babble.com in an article on Kourtney Kardashian’s statement about not being comfortable with homebirth.  I was quoted as the only pro-homebirth mommy and while I’m okay with that, …

It’s like Christmas came early in our house. All our Black Friday shopping was not actually for Christmas, but stuff we needed now. Honeybun got a new bike. We’ve been looking for a good deal …

Our family has never lived in a place where it’s supposed to snow (we saw some while in Dublin but it was very unusual) but we usually visit snowy places at least once a year. …