Celebrity deaths may seem to run in threes, but in the Dennis family, BIRTHS come in threes.It is official: all my Dennis sisters-in-law are pregnant! It is a cousin explosion for Brooklyn and August. Melissa and Chad just announced they are expecting a little one in early February!! Praise the Lord!As it stands now, Lauren is due first of October, Anna near Thanksgiving...Read More

This past Friday, at a 15 year celebration for Soho Modern, a fantastic modern furniture store in town, Kyle and I got the most adorable chairs for August and Brooklyn: two white kid-sized Verner Panton S chairs. Granted, these aren't the originals - no way would we have paid anywhere NEAR the "original" price for one of these chairs. I just looked online...Read More

This morning, Kyle caught some great footage of August looking cute in his summer shirt and Brooklyn looking adorably eclectic.Look at those bruised up legs!Attempting to stand up on the footboard.Calmly watching his big sister get dressed. ...Read More

As tends to do, one home improvement leads to another. Our couch arrived last week and it is, in my opinion, a thing of beauty. Sleek, angular, smooth, modern. Sigh. And at the moment, untouchable. I am terrified of dirt marring its beautiful surface. Booties must be brushed off, no shoes, no food, you know the drill. Right now, it's just time to...Read More

I realize the contents of this blog are all over the place, but then so are my thoughts, ideas and actions. These are what make the events of our days "tales". I have this wall that I have been intending to turn into a magnetized wall and use as a base for kid-art. Or whatever other kinds of things might need to be...Read More

I can almost not even craft this post. It still gives me the heebie-jeebies.Last week, I was sitting in my living room with my friend Julia as our kids played around us. She suddenly let out a yelp and pointed to one of the french doors leading out to our deck. I turned around to see what caught her attention and was thoroughly...Read More

Anytime I'm in the library working on the computer, he makes his way to the bookshelf directly to my left which is loaded down with Doubleday Children books. He loves them.He grins at me with mischief in his eyes, then slowly begins to grab the spine of the books with his chubby little fingers, easing them out of their slots.Next thing I know,...Read More

As horrendous as it sounds, this was seriously good. A recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini - a fabulous cookbook that I discovered through my friend, Liz. This concoction began with a homemade pastry tart crust, some steamed broccoli, some feta cheese and an apple sliced up. After the tart crust was prepared, the whole shebang was plopped into the tart shell. The custard...Read More

I am belatedly writing an entry about a trip to the zoo I took over a week ago. I am so behind on these posts. Life happens, you know? And around here, sometimes sitting down to write a blog post takes back burner to things like changing diapers, working on my daily Bible study, mopping, vacuuming up scads of Bailey hair, not to...Read More

August plays along with me.Just a little piano-fest at our house!I love how intent he is on playing while I do! Intensity! ...Read More

I have news. Not about me. About my brother, Michael. The brother of mine about whom we have all wondered what zany thing God will select him to do - given his vast array of talents. And they are many and varied. He speaks Spanish fluently and dabbles in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, whatever other languages he happens to hear and that sound fun...Read More

Brooklyn in the new pillow-case dress made for her by Mrs. Zellmer!Being adorably ferocious!Beautiful.Being creative.Posing, as she so loves to do. ...Read More

I really want to smile, but there is something in my mouth that you can't have.There's no library card for me to eat!Baby bird and daddy.You!!!!!Squealing with joy!If I stretch up a little further, I can hit the black keys!!!I think I can just taste some leftover food on this oven mitt...Ok, I'm a little in a daze after all these pictures. ...Read More