Category: Time to Celebrate

Happy Halloween! This Halloween is a very special one for our family.  Not only is it our first with baby Doodle, but it will be the girls’ first time Trick-or-Treating.  We intended to take them …

With 3 small children, getting anything done can be a challenge so I usually try not to take on extra, non-essential tasks however, Halloween is coming up.  I love Halloween, especially the dressing up part.  …

Fall is in the air.  Well, not really.  It’s still in the 90s and unbearably humid here, BUT Fall is definitely in the stores and I am getting that Halloween feeling! A few days ago …

We are not big birthday party people.  In 6 children’s birthdays, we’ve only had 2 parties, one for each girl at 3 years old.  I don’t believe in the big blowout for a year old, …

Poor Sugarplum, in 3 years, has not yet had an actual birthday cake.  Since Honeybun’s birthday is only a few weeks before, we are usually not ready for another cake so soon!  I always make …

Today my middle munchkin is 3 (or “free” as she prefers) and I cannot wrap my head around it.  Even though I now have Doodle, I still see Sugarplum as my little baby.   Recently Sugarplum had …

Five years ago today, Honeybun exited my body and forever changed my world when she made me a mommy.  I cannot believe how fast time has gone and how big she has gotten.  Having Doodle now …

Yesterday was a big day for our family, we finally welcomed our third little dumpling!  While my mommy instincts were terribly off on the timing (what I was sure was going to be an early …

Easter is kind of a weird holiday for our family.  We haven’t yet established what the holiday is for us.  We aren’t the go-to-church-for-the-resurection-of-Christ type people, but we aren’t the “The Easter Bunny’s coming!” type …

My regular readers will undoubtedly know my family and I lived in Dublin, Ireland for a few years.  You’ll also know we really liked living there and miss it a lot since we returned to …