On Sunday Mom hosted a big family dinner for Easter. I don't know that she was planning on hosting a big family dinner for Easter this year. But she invited…
We were video chatting with my sister Allison the other day and I made a joke about getting a kitten. She was fairly horrified that I would consider adding more…
This was a bittersweet holiday for me. It was our first Christmas with Lilian. But it was also our first Christmas without my Grandfather. Grandpa loved Christmas, and he and…
There's something about having a baby that makes Christmas seem extra important. I think it might have a little something to do with the fact that everyone and their mother…
Two recent developments that I'm pretty sure are going to make my life a whoooole lot easier: 1. I discovered a way to get digital copies of the newspaper archives…
The Sandy Hook shootings hit me particularly hard. I think it's partly because I think about my baby and how I want to do everything I can to keep her…
My sister, Allison, and her husband stayed at our house on Friday night. As their Christmas present to us, they babysat LJ so that Kristian and I could have our…
(Why, yes. I did flame out of NaBloPoMo last week. Whoops.) I went back to work last week after three months of maternity leave. I was expecting it to be…