All the Things That Matter Blog

Erin cracks me up. She’s totally into the “why?” stage, which can get totally annoying very quickly. But when she’s willing to have an actual conversation, she has an answer for absolutely everything.  Like when I tell her to come to the table for a meal, and she responds, “I’ll be right there Mommy....

We were invited to play at toddler time at a nearby inflatables place yesterday. The kids had a blast. There were a lot of kids, but the place was big enough that it didn’t matter. Really, it was a great time, and afternoon naps were MARVELOUS. While Megan and Alex were bouncing in one inflatable,...

First of all, I’m sick of being sick. We’ve been sick for pretty much all of the winter so far. Since early January, we have had a steady stream of colds, coughs, sore throats, and occasional sessions of puking (almost entirely occurring between midnight and 6 am, of course). I rarely get sick and...

You know what is one of the hardest things about being a (Christian) stay-at-home mom?  Telling people how I really am, how life is really going, what’s really up with me/us. Okay, so maybe that’s less about my stage of family life and more about my type-A, perfectionistic need to always appear as if...

– Megan barfed on my lap just before I was supposed to go work the nursery at church on Sunday night. On my last pair of clean jeans. So I fished out a pair of jeans from the laundry that weren’t too wrinkled. No problem…except apparently, she’d gotten those jeans sometime earlier. Which I...