I don’t understand why children spend the first 13 years of their lives fighting sleep, then all of a sudden they won’t get out of bed. I think it is one of life’s great unsolved mysteries. Getting Ethan to go to bed at night is a whole series of plays in the playbook… he’s hot, he’s cold, his head hurts, he is thinking bad...

We are cooking with gas in my house lately, lots and lots of it.;) We purchased a 36 inch Bertazzoni range at an appliance sample sale way way back in July. The thing is gorgeous, I spied it as soon as we got into the showroom and had the salesman put a SOLD sign on it immediately. It is black enamel with a stainless...

I have always had a thing for baby bellies, I think they are just about the cutest things in the whole world. ‘Where’s your belly?’ gets the response from my kids of lifting up their shirts and laughing. And that big pink baby belly is just darling, so much stuffed into one small little area, it’s like you can...

The kid totally cracks me up.  We spend a day out, we go do something fun like hit the pumpkin patch or have ice cream after school… we have a great time and his way of telling me is to say ‘I don’t want to be adopted today.’  Like every other day in his poor pitiful life he would rather be adopted by another family. ...

I would be Frick, hubs is Frack.  I am exhausted and all I can say is that this whole process is a freakin riot.  Every time we put something on the wall we need to take it down again and redo it.  I finally feel like we are starting to make some progress… the ratio of cabinets that need to be redone vs. cabinets...