Nan and Grandad - doesn't she look cute in the pj's you sent her??? We love them!The big rush at the end is her moving around to immediately watch the footage. At least she's getting better at performing a whole song! We just need to work on lighting! ...Read More

Ok, I have to confess, she jumps up and down and is no Julie Andrews, but the girl melts my heart like butter on a hot skillet. And she really can sing. Ok, I have to confess, she jumps up and down and is no Julie Andrews, but the girl melts my heart like butter on a hot skillet. And she really can...Read More

Due to the impending arrival of baby numero dos, we have been actively getting Brooklyn's BIG GIRL ROOM ready. In other words, Kyle has been painting. And what a lovely job he's done! It was the only bedroom that remained the ugly masking tape color and I cringed every time I walked in or walked by. But now....inspired by a French house featured...Read More

(no, the plant growing in the little blue pot is NOT poison ivy, but a tiny Japanese maple). ...Read More

I love gardening and landscaping and creating beauty in my surroundings. I love getting my hands in the dirt and feeling the soil, smelling it on my skin. I hate that it dries my hands out ridiculously and never seems to get out from under my fingernails, but everytime I put on my gardening gloves and begin to work, off they go 5...Read More

The Wisteria Hysteria has come and gone. All during the year, I stare at the gnarling limbs and twining branches that is our wisteria - snaking up and around existing trees, creating a living sculpture. A continual promise of beauty contained within, just waiting for those few weeks in April when the weather is warm enough to coax out the purple pods of...Read More

Oh, are you watching me? ...Read More

I am learning that I have no need to rent comedy movies to make me laugh anymore. I just look at whatever Brooklyn's doing and it rarely fails to make me and Kyle genuinely laugh out loud with far more enjoyment than had we been watching a movie! I love it when someone does something unexpectedly funny and it just catches you off...Read More

I have these big velcro rollers that are designed to coil your hair around, blow dry and then shake out gorgeous rolling curls. Well, when the hair under discussion barely FITS around a roller, you do what you can with what you have. And the end result is...well, anchorwoman hair. Or pageant hair. On a 2 year old. It made me laugh. It...Read More

I realize that as time goes, these pictures get less and less flattering and more and more grotesque, but it is tradition to keep tabs on the progress of your pregnancy via pictures and in this case, I'm not going to buck tradition. So I am officially past the sixth month point and moving right along. The baby is moving pretty regularly, enough...Read More