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To My Big Girl

Dear Madeline, I’ve been writing birthday letters to you and your sisters every year, and you’d think these sentimental snippets would get easier as you grew and started doing more interesting stuff than just babbling, toddling about, and excreting, but it’s tough to sum up what you mean to me as you grow older, biggerRead the whole post >>

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Things have been a little serious around here, don’t you think? Leave it to my kids to marble in potty humor when you need a good laugh. Madeline actually had her first sleepover last Friday at a friend’s house, and her mom texted me that night telling me what a hoot my daughter was becauseRead the whole post >>

Announcing the Patron Saint of…

In honor of All Saints’ Day, I share with you a recent conversation among the Wicker girls. Me: You know, if we all really love God and try to be really good people, we just might be saints someday. 3-year-old: Weally?Me: Really. 3-year-old: But what would I be the saint of? 5-year-old: You could beRead the whole post >>

Is Motherhood Worth It?

This photo was taken in healthier days. Has motherhood ever been featured on Dirty Jobs? If not, my 5-year-old would argue that it should be. Not that she’s ever seen the show, but she has had an up close and personal look at her mom’s dirty work. We all recently succumbed to a stomach bug,Read the whole post >>

{this moment} Jumping for Joy – Literally

(Yes, this post popped in to make an appearance earlier than I thought I’d scheduled it. I don’t know why I try to schedule things ahead of time because I continually goof up. What day of the week is it? It’s the year 2010, right?) {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo –Read the whole post >>