Here’s Harriet helping me clean out the beds.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
I’d thought briefly about sending out a birth announcement. But then reality struck. In all of my adult life I’ve never sent out Christmas cards, birth announcements or anything that involves compiling a list of addresses. I always think, “I have a blog! Isn’t that enough?” So here it is, Dale was born. I
The kids and I picked out a Christmas tree and put it up today. This is my new favorite ornament. It’s our one souvenir from Acadia this summer. I wanted to try to do a ’50s era tree, dripping with tinsel. I bought 3 boxes and douse the tree in the sparkley silver stuff. I…
The other morning I was carrying Harriet down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs I set her down and as I let go of her I could feel her little body tense up and freeze in fear. Her body was stiff, her eyes were huge, and she didn’t dare move a muscle. She…
I don’t bake much. I have a terrible sweet tooth. If I bake I eat baked goods…way too much. So my solution is not to bake. The other day I was given a recipe for “to die for” date muffins from my friend Julie. So I preheated the oven to 350 and the kids and…
After feeding her and cleaning the house a bit I popped my jammies on and went to bed. In the morning I brought Harriet downstairs and Jared started giggling at us. We were wearing the exact same outfit. Same exact t-shirt. Same purple sweatpants.