Run, Forest, Run

Lately Jack’s been pretty needy.  Poor guy. He just really, really wants to hang out with us in the living room at night. 
The kids just love him.  As soon as they see him, they’re down on all fours, moving in his direction as fast as possible, quite often squealing like crazy.  Jack just looks at [...]

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Wet Wednesday

Yippee! The little tike slept all night last night.  Unfortunately, both kids were up and yammering to each other this morning around 5:30.  They generally wake up before we get into their room to get them out of bed and we don’t feel really obligated to go in there and do anything unless one of [...]

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Of Course

I did jinx it.  After 12 nights in a row of Sam sleeping all night, she was up 3 (three) times last night.
Shoot me.

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Sleep, Glorious Sleep

Ms. Sam has slept through the night for almostt the last two weeks.  Now that I’ve written that, she’ll be up in the middle of the night tonight.
After she was sick and stayed up two nights in a row, for some reason she started sleeping through the night.  For quite a few days, she’d get [...]

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All Giggles

I wish the camera recorded sound.  The girls were wrestling last night and just giggling!

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Jessie Pics

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Sam Pics

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Wet Monday

I’m typing this totally soaking wet from riding home from work on my bike.  Why don’t you change your clothes, you ask? Because the rest of them are in the washing machine, and besides, hopefully these’ll dry fast enough on me so that I’m dry when I pick up the kids in 30 minutes.  And, [...]

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A Warning Against Self Medication

We’ve all done it. Admit it.  You don’t have time to run to the doctor for every little thing.
Last Friday I had a fabulously red eye.  It was swollen a bit and just looked icky.  After Jessie got sick, I didn’t have time to run to the doctor to get something for the eye.  Matt [...]

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Sick Kiddos

Alternative title for this post: taking exhaustion to a whole new level.
It started with a call from daycare last Friday. Jessie had a temperature, so I needed to go pick her up.  I was annoyed b/c she’s teething and I thought that was all it was.  As soon as I saw her at daycare, though, I [...]

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Take my keys away. Please.

I hate to drive.
That wasn’t always the case. When I was 16 (even in my 20s), I loved to drive.  The thrill of going fast (don’t read this, Mom…), the excitement of speeding around (our girls will be in their 40s before I let them get their licenses), the freedom to go where I wanted [...]

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It’s like crack

Joined Facebook last week.  Fortunately, access to that is blocked at work.  Good grief, that’s addictive.  I can’t imagine getting any work done at all if I had 24 hour access to it.  Found a couple of friends from high school.  In some ways hs seems like it was just yesterday, and yet, it seems [...]

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4th of July

Not much going on today.  Kids are too young to take out for some holiday fun.  Matt stayed home and did some house cleaning with Jessie, Sam and I went out for formula and food. And stopped off for some lunch. She had  blast – first time she’s ridden in a shopping cart. Generally we [...]

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So much going on…

…and yet every day it seems like the same thing.
Right now we’re having a heck of a little thunderstorm. I managed to get home before it started raining. Somehow that seems so much more important when you’re walking or biking than it does when you’re in the car.
I’m also making soup for supper.  Sure, it’s [...]

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