All the Things That Matter Blog

Dear Self, You have two toddlers (and a baby). But as that fact seems to escape you more often than not, please take the following reminders and put them someplace where you will see them on a regular basis.  1. Adding “quickly” or “now” to a command or request does NOT make any of...

                     I am so blessed. Happy Thanksgiving!...

I’ve got a lot of them these days…thoughts. But I’ve struggled to put them into words that would make sense on a blog. In all honesty, I write to make sense of my own thoughts most of the time. So I’m just going to ramble a bit and see what it is that I...

So I was going to do a Baby Times-sort of post, but frankly, that would take more mental energy than I’ve got right now.  So you’re stuck with just a regular update.  Here’s what we’ve been up to recently –  We spent the weekend at the farm for birthday festivities. Eric and his grandpa...

That’s what I am.  Lack of (enough) sleep for weeks dropped my immune system so that I got hit unusually hard by the cold that my kids had last week.  And I’m really sore because my body seems to be ignoring the fact that Megan hasn’t nursed in over a week and we don’t...