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The missing box has been found and all is right with the world.  Actually, the missing box turned into three missing boxes!  My wonderful h...

Rachel heard a song tonight with the word, "Hallelujah" in it.  She started trying to say it, but instead of saying the right word...

...of the mini-van moms!

My "nesting" instinct started a few weeks ago, when I suddenly HAD to have Rachel's old clothes out of the crawl space in the ...

I haven't posted because in the last post I promised that I would write about something more positive.  But when I promised that, I hadn...

I hate winter.  I don't use that word much....I just really, really hate it.  Mostly because of the endless sickness it seems to cause. ...

Over the last six months or so Rachel has become so much better at entertaining herself.  I can't even explain how nice it is.  That doe...

Finally!  March is always a happier month for me....halfway through it my birthday comes and it means spring is near.  The snow is slowly me...

I had a coupon to Babies R Us that expired today (which I could combine with another coupon I had), and was determined to get there today to...

This is the winter that never ends.... Remember this ? Now it looks like this, thanks to 10 more inches yesterday. (Sorry, it was taken ...

I mentioned that Rachel got a new clock for Christmas--an Okay to Wake clock. It's worked like a charm, and I'm loving the benefi...

Rachel's been asking since Friday to make a snow family.  Daddy told her that today they could.  But it got so cold last night that when...

Heading up the hill for the first time (Daddy offered to pull her in the sled, but she insisted on walking.) Here's what happened just ...

I can't believe the size of the snowflakes we're getting.  They started around 10:30 or 11 this morning and it hasn't let up sin...

Dancing Rachel started a dance class last week.  It's at a church, very laid back, and not at all like I imagine a regular studio clas...

For the last several months (ever since summer was over, really, and she stopped wearing shorts every day), Rachel's decided that she do...

We've been working with Rachel lately about what it means to tell the truth.  It all started when she started telling us after she went ...

I really don't like January.  And maybe it's the almost constant daily snow we've had this month....maybe it's the post holi...

This morning I walked into Rachel's room, where she was playing by herself while I was getting dressed.  She was laying down, had her sh...

So here's how Rachel's been passing the time on these long winter days when we can't go outside.... 10) watching princess videos...