This past school year I have been the interim middle school youth director at our church. It has been fun and frustrating and everything in between. I have no idea why they picked me to lead kids who seem to … Continued
This year I left the Valentine cards up to Addison for his 3rd grade class. I wasn’t even going to push it if he didn’t want to bring anything at all. This week he decided on Valentine pranks. Yup, leave … Continued
We took our two boys to see The Lego Movie this weekend. Legos are a big part of our life so seeing this movie was a no-brainer. The story is set in Lego City where everything is awesome…as long … Continued
Well, it happened again. Sunday morning turned into me yelling at my kids to get out the door to church. While we should be preparing ourselves for a reverent, worshipful experience I’m yelling at them to get their shoes on … Continued
Recently Dear Husband downloaded a new app to the computer that saves all our photos to the cloud. It gives you all sorts of statistics about your picture taking habits. Charts, graphs, the works. Dear Husband kinda geeks out over … Continued
Earlier this year Addison got into the book series Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. It’s a comic strip style chapter book series that takes the Star Wars characters and gives them a little twist. The titles speak for themselves; The … Continued
Sandwiched in between Christmas and New Year is a little ol’ thing called my birthday. Seeing as how we just finished celebrating Santa’s birthday, er…I mean, baby Jesus’ birthday plus 6 other family birthdays, it’s easy to get lost in … Continued
This weekend was Harry’s 4th birthday party. December and January is birthday central around here with 7 birthdays in the family. Add Christmas and the New Year to the mix and things get a little hectic. This was the first … Continued
The Elf insanity continues. Last year my Elf on the Shelf post got a lot of play and laughs. Many of you joined in the fun regardless of your level of Elf efforts. Some of you addmitted to going a … Continued
This past two weeks I’ve been witness to a few things that few years ago I would have told you would never happen. I’ve had some serious proud mama moments. Tight throat and prickly eyes. About a week ago was … Continued
