My teen has been on the swim team since a teeny tiny 2nd grader. She wore almost the same size swim suit as her 5-year-old sister. Then and now she is skin and bones. Hates cold water. The swimming pool…
Category: Family
If It’s Saturday It Must Be Volleyball!
Over Memorial Weekend we made our now annual trip to Penn State. For the previous two years, my husband drove our oldest to play at the 3-day tournament while I stayed home with the younger two. So technically this was…
And That’s All I Have To Say About That…
Is there really anything more to say about this cake? A cake made by my father-in-law with a raised cake nose, indents for eyes and mouth, and chocolate shavings for hair. No, I did not think so. My FIL makes…
Romano’s Macaroni Grill Restaurant Favorites: Giveaway
I may have mentioned that I am a lousy cook. I burn rice. I burn garlic bread. I regularly lose track of what I am doing and..you guessed it…burn something. Cooking from scratch is problematic for me since I have…
Easter Fun AKA Eating Too Much Food
With two sets of grandparents within 10-15 miles of each other, we spend holidays shuttling between the houses. So, it’s two dinners, two sets Easter baskets, two sets of candy, two desserts, and the list goes on and on. It’s…
5 Tips for Photographing Toddlers
FireMom over at StopDropandBlog posted about photographing toddlers. Her post brought back a flood of memories of some great and not-so-great experiences photographing our children. I made a decision early on with my oldest to have regular photographs taken. Since…
Like American Idol, Sunday Was a Winner
Sunday Blast from the Past — My 9-year-old with her Monkey Toaster Strudel circa 2005.Sunday could not have gone any better. Let’s review shall we… Kids let us sleep in. Kids did not argue — too much — while downstairs…
Table Talk Tuesday
It doesn’t look as though Christy is doing her Table Talk Tuesday, but…. Dinnertime at our house is either a relaxed, leisurely meal, with hopefully all kids eating OR a mad dash, free-for-all, slurpin’ soup, crammin’ food in mouth, race…
Trying to be a good Catholic parent and other musings from me
NaBloPoMo is over. I posted all but one day of November. I tried to use the schedule feature to post, but lost track of days. A valiant effort. I will say one thing…I plan on keeping up the pattern of…
Reuniting Old Friends with a wii
I have spent the last month or so making connections over the web, joining Facebook, starting a blog, twittering…basically spreading myself around the internet. If I am honest with myself I am not doing just such a great job keeping…
