Wishing you peace, love and joy.  From our house to yours.
  
 

I did a photo shoot with the girls today.  For the photographers reading this, you must be saints.  Lordy, getthing them dressed and trying to make them look civilized for a few minutes was hard.   
As much as I would like to write an interesting post tonight, instead I am going to spend the evening trying […]

I have been doing this parenting gig long enough to know that kids go through rough patches.  You know, periods of weeks or even months when they seem determined to drive their parents up the fucking wall.  They can’t help it, this is just part of growing up.
The past few weeks, we seem to have […]

I stole a couple child-free hours to try to get some Christmas shopping done.  I swear, I am doing everything in my power to get it completed before Thanksgiving. 
I made the mistake of going to the mall.  I loathe the mall.  I probably go to the mall less than 5 times a year and every time I […]

Today I took the girls to get professional photos taken.  When M was 6 months old, we had her pictures taken at a place in the mall and it was so traumatic for Mr. A and me that we avoided doing that ever again. 
That is until my mom got a bee in her bonnet last summer.  […]