the world of weed

This morning Rachel saw a picture on our new April calendar page we already flipped (it's a photo calendar of pictures of her) of her bi...

It's 12 days until she turns three, but already the celebrating has begun! Last night we continued the tradition we started last year a...

It has started. "Why, Mommy?" It's 7:22 AM and she's already asked me this question about five times. Oh my. What are we ...

Anyone know anything about how to turn your blog into a book? I need to get this thing printed before it would somehow get lost--too much p...

Let me preface this post by saying that I'm not scared of bugs. I don't like them particularly, but they don't scare me, and I n...

With the warm weather last week, we finally opened the crab. Rachel's been asking and asking, so I finally caved. An hour and a half lat...

The last few days have been warm and wonderful (otherwise perfect, if not for headaches and a bad cold, but I'm not complaining...I love...

So I'm officially in my mid-thirities now, having turned 35 yesterday. I remember a time when 35 sounded old. It still sounds old, but ...

I tried something different with Rachel's hair this morning, after seeing another little girl with a similar style sometime last week. I...

Yesterday I had the worst headache of my life. To help me make it through the day Rachel watched a little more TV than normal. On Dora the...

I like the hour of extra daylight this time change allows, but I don't like much else about it. Yesterday it took Rachel two hours to fa...

So after New Year's I wrote about our potty training adventures. Then I suddenly stopped writing about them. A few of you noticed and ...

Rachel and I have been gone most of the week visiting our friends Allecia and Kaden, who now live out of state. We got home yesterday aftern...

To say Rachel loves to dress up is an understatement. A large portion of every day is spent either 1) wearing her Snow White Dress (it's...

Rachel's loved the story of The Three Little Pigs for quite awhile now. We've read it, reinacted it, and watched it (the old Disney ...

My girl has an amazing memory....about some things. Saying "please" when she asks for something? Not such a good memory. But about...

After a long hiatus, pigtails have returned. She screams and hollers when I put them in, which explains the hiatus. Usually I choose not to ...