What a fantastic day for picking strawberries! It was a beautiful morning and there were LOTS of berries to be picked! S prefers to eat them rather than put them in the bucket. I don’t blame her…they are sooooo delicious and sweet right off the plant.
After we filled 3 buckets we went to lunch, then [...]

Two weeks ago I was asked to give my testimony at church tonight. I’m not sure which is worse: natural childbirth or speaking in front of people. At least with the childbirth, when my face turns red and I am hyperventilating and sweating, most people understand. Not so with public speaking!
Thank you to Loretta, my [...]

So I was awakened last night by the sound of little feet running on the hardwood toward our bedroom and then a breathless child saying “Mommy, my bed’s all wet”. With one eye opened I looked at her and asked the obvious, “Did you have an accident?” “Yes, Ma’am, I’m sorry”.
As I was getting my [...]

A tid bit of information I realized the other day: after S was born, it took me 18 months to loose the baby weight, but only 9 months to loose it after little E. Interesting. Could it be that with 2 kids I’m burning twice the calories? Or maybe it’s because this house is 4 [...]

To celebrate my good friend Velvet’s birthday we asked our husbands to watch over the households for a few hours while we went to dinner and a movie. We saw “Failure to Launch”. It was the perfect “girl’s day out” kinda show. Not too serious, not too violent, not too animated! [...]