I Saw This Family at the Dollar Store

When you troll the dollar stores for years in search of paper plates and straws and cat toys and party favors and completely inedible foods, you never even walk down the toy aisle. Except when you are looking for your nephews and then you think LET'S JUST KEEP LIKING LIGHT UP STICKS FOREVER, can we …

May Bedtime Come Sweetly

They are once so small, so very small, that the rock n' plays and swings seem to cover it all. And then the Bassinet.  Rebuffed at every turn it met. Moved onto our pack n' plays, no fancy cribs for us.  They huffed and they puffed and eventually settled in with little fuss. Good Morning, …

Things We Laugh About LATER: The Sickness

These babes o' mine have not really been sick in their 2-plus years outside of my belly.  So we've had a killer run avoiding the yuck. HOWEVER. There is a first time for everything and we belly-flopped into the great unknown world of bodily functions that we had previously only heard tell of from others …