Category Archives: Family Updates

As everyone is talking about fitness in the new year, I’m reminded of my own failings/strengths. Actual conversation: Me: What are you doing? Child: Putting away this book. Me: Look, there are five books that need to go downstairs along … Continue reading →

This year Emma has become quite the hair stylist. She’s been using her new smartphone privileges to study the wonders of hair tutorials on the internet. Hannah and I, especially Hannah, are glad recipients of this gift. It’s really quite … Continue reading →

This past Monday, I was in a funk. The kids were starting to irritate me. I had things to get done, the house was messy, so I decided to do something fun and spontaneous to break out. I suggested to … Continue reading →

Another year, another cheesy Christmas letter from us. Taking a page from elementary school, I decided to go all acrostic on you all. C-The Chickies moved to one of the rooms downstairs. One of the biggest benefits to two girls … Continue reading →

Micah is a fairly good communicator, but being two, he still has many idiosyncrasies of language. One of his troubles is many vowels in a row. If I ask him to do something or if he is something, he’ll answer … Continue reading →

After the trauma of Wednesday, Thursday was a quiet day of recovery, I think. I was really too tired to notice much other than what was directly around me. Friday dawned anew, though, and with it came those troubles of … Continue reading →

I discovered mid morning that Isaiah had some hair and fuzz wrapped tightly around his toes. This is a condition called a hair tourniquet. I worked to free them. However, I kept watch over him, and by afternoon, it became … Continue reading →

We sat down to dinner in stages. I was helping Emma prepare for her test tomorrow, so Bryan went down and heated up the Sloppy Joes that I had pulled from the freezer earlier that week. He got Micah and … Continue reading →

I thought I would remedy the relative silence on the blog about Isaiah. It’s like he’s a royal baby that you only get a glimpse of him every few months. He’s more than two months. He’s doing two month old … Continue reading →

I love to sing to our kids at bedtime, especially to Micah who sings along. But, every so often, he’ll throw a monkey wrench in the whole bedtime process by requesting a song that doesn’t exist. “What song do you … Continue reading →