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I'm a terrible decorator. I don't know how to put things together and make them look good. I can't really picture how things a...

All is right with the world. I just found the wonderful, soft, expensive leather glove that I lost last Friday. I've been going crazy ...

"At bedtime tonight I started telling Rebecca (age 2.5) about how I used to rock her in the rocking chair we were sitting in, and give ...

Rachel hasn't wanted me to do anything to her hair (other than brush it) for years. But for some reason, for the last couple of days s...

There's not a lot of news around here. Real life has started up again after the holiday craziness. Rachel's back at school, and th...

When Rachel was little, she had playpen time each day, when she would play independently in the playpen for thirty minutes or so in another ...

Rachel has always loved to draw. I'm biased, but I think she's pretty good. For being six. Today I found this picture on the bac...

Today Rachel goes back to school, which means Christmas Vacation is officially over, and real life starts up again.  A few days ago I was re...

Here's how we brought in the new year this morning.... This is what Rebecca wanted to do the whole time.  She did enjoy th...

We're back!  We had a great Christmas--first at our house on Christmas morning, then an impromptu trip to visit my husband's family ...

Today was the day! Rachel was so excited. It will never be as exciting as it was the first time we went, but it was a fun afterno...

Here's what happened last year we took the girls to see Santa. I thought this year might be different.  Rebecca's not too shy any...

When we won the Nutcracker tickets, my plan was to wait and surprise Rachel the morning of the show with the tickets.  But then, a week or...

Rebecca loves taking medicine.  This is a complete turnaround from what I'm used to with Rachel, who is terrible about taking medicine. ...

Last week/weekend was the busiest, most exhausting of the month (year??). Whew!  I'm so excited to relax and do nothing today (well, if ...

Remember how my dad won us tickets to go see the Nutcracker? Well, before we found out he won, I had entered another giveaway.  And would ...

Over Thanksgiving my mom decided she wanted to get Rachel a gingerbread house for us to put together at Christmastime.  While looking at the...

First Rachel had a cold.  Then I caught it.  I'm still getting over it, but this afternoon I started wondering if Rebecca was sick. I ha...

Christmastime at our house has begun.  Rachel was counting down the days until December 1st, when Rudy, our elf on the shelf , would make hi...