Happy 8th Birthday, TJ!
Dear TJ, Eight years ago, you were born at 12:22 pm. You weighed only 6 lb 2 oz, and you were only 18.5 inches long. Today, you are in the…
Dear TJ, Eight years ago, you were born at 12:22 pm. You weighed only 6 lb 2 oz, and you were only 18.5 inches long. Today, you are in the…
This is the post I hoped I'd never have to write. It's official as of this past Tuesday, August 13, when my dad went to see his oncologist regarding the…
Thanks to Mom It Forward and their negotiations with Universal Orlando Resort (and other sponsors), we got a sweet deal on a family vacation like no other. A week from…
I'm going to start this post with a disclaimer. I have no intention of telling TJ's grandparents about this, because I don't think they would understand. If they read this,…
As I've been poking around my family tree, I've been mostly focusing on my direct ancestors, but not their siblings. But as I looked into the records of Deacon George…
I'm on a genealogy kick, and some of the stories I'm finding about my ancestors are really quite amusing. Take, for example, this news story about my great-great-grandfather, Fisher Blakely.…
Last night as I was putting TJ to bed, he says to me very innocently, "I have a question, Mommy. Are balls part of the body?" I asked him if…
For the last month and a half, we've been getting notes home from school, and TJ has been reminding us, that his class was going to be going on a…
As soon as TJ opened the front door yesterday afternoon, I could tell something was wrong. He was on the verge of tears. I asked him what was wrong, and…
We're still learning new details about the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. As I type this, 26 people are dead. 18 of them children. They went to Sandy Hook…