All the Things That Matter Blog

Let’s see… Timmy is now five week old. I’ve been trying to get an update written for a week (thus, the blog title), but obviously that has turned out to be somewhat difficult to accomplish. So here are some of the highlights.  I cannot keep Erin and Megan from shoving Timmy’s pacifier into his...

So Timmy is two weeks old today (okay, in another almost-six hours, anyway). Here’s where we are… Timmy He’s really a good sleeper, which is nice. I think we’re starting to find a rhythm, though of course, with a baby this little, it could all change tomorrow. And he can sleep through a lot...

So I thought I’d better capture our weekend before I forget all the details in the fog of Newborn Land. Because it really was quite the eventful weekend… I had my first contractions, irregular and mild, about 6 am on Saturday morning. In fact, they felt a lot like the “false labor” I had...

So it’s been a busy December. Good, but busy.  We had multiple Christmas extravaganzas with family and at home. We were at my parents’ house on Christmas eve, at home on Christmas morning, and spent the rest of Christmas at the farm. The kids had a blast, though they were exhausted, overstimulated and spent two...

  You know those people who seem to be SuperMom. I am so not one of them. For every single SuperMom you think you know, you just have to find the one place that she cannot manage. For me, that place is breakfast. I know, that sounds ridiculous. I can generally keep up with laundry....