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Here's Rachel modeling her halloween outfit from Grandma. She won't leave the headband in, even though it looks really cute. Also no...

Around here we have "Beggar's Night," which is often on a different day than Halloween. If Halloween is on a weekend, as it is...

Last night Daddy and Rachel carved a pumpkin. I guess I should say Daddy carved a pumpkin. Rachel " helped ." After putting her h...

Here are some pictures from yesterday's adventure. A little blurry, but you get the idea.

Haven't done one of these in awhile... Good news: We had a fun adventure today--our first visit with Rachel to Chuck-e-cheese. My brot...

Rachel generally eats like a bird, especially at dinner time. Breakfast she does okay. Lunch is almost always a peanut butter sandwich (he...

Fall, where are you? Where did you go? All of a sudden it feels like winter! They're even talking snow. I'm not ready for that. Des...

It's been a very long week. Last Saturday night while Rachel was taking a bath she asked me for medicine. She hadn't been sick, so I...

It's been a full week and I haven't had a chance to update this blog. My husband was out of town for work for the week and Grandma w...

Me.....not Rachel. I've been awake since 1:50 this morning. At 4:30 this morning I cleaned the bathroom and mopped the kitchen floor. ...

Rachel didn't start out as a good napper. In fact, she was a terrible napper for a good nine months after she was born. But somewhere al...

Yesterday afternoon was our church's fall picnic. We've gone a couple of times, and each year it's been held somewhere differen...

Remember how much I love camping ? Well, my husband has been asking ever since that night to go camping. I kept saying I was willing to give...

The other night as my husband gave Rachel a bath he gave her the foam letters in her name in the tub and asked her if she could use them to ...

Driving home from the library this evening I looked in the rear view mirror and saw Rachel looking up with her hands in the air, waving them...

Several weeks ago I was at a children's resale shop in town and found a brand new with the tags on princess nightgown. It was two sizes...

Rachel's red toes have been "scrubbing off," as she puts it, so she's been wanting me to re-paint her toes. Finally today...

Hooray! According to Rachel's teacher, today was another great day at school. So glad to hear.... It's like pulling teeth to get R...

Remember that old commercial where the narrator asked, "How do you spell relief?" and the person on camera held up a pack of antac...

Today was the big day! I couldn't sleep last night, I had so many concerns swirling through my head--I thought first day of school jitte...