They All Call Me Mom

money well spent

I’m almost embarrassed to show these photos.  But what the heck – we’re all friends, right?  So here are some “before” photos of my boys’ bedroom closet. It looked like this ALL the time.  The closet organizer was built  about 7 years ago by my husband.  I never liked it and wanted so much to […]

major leagues here we come

We are so excited for A.J. who recently was invited to try out for a PONY league baseball team!  This is an age 10 team, so A.J. was  one of the youngest at the try-outs (he just turned eight in March!)  We got the call today, and he made the final cut – he is […]

it’s looking a little shabby around here

This little chubby-faced one year old…. is now my handsome four and a half year old… and he needs a haircut! His hair is pushed to the side in this photo but usually it just about covers his eyes, his bangs are so long.  “Daddy” has always been in charge of taking the boys to get […]

naptime

Ahhhh….do you hear that?  It’s the sound of a quiet house. Well, not really. I can still hear children talking.  Aria is talking to Aislynn.  A.J. is talking to Aria.  The three of them are holding a cute conversation. But the house is calm and semi-quiet….because you know who is taking a nap?  Andrew!  I […]

No Cavities and Halloween Candy

After four long, long years of waiting….after watching his older brothers and sisters go to their appointments year after year and having to stay behind in the waiting room….finally it was Andrew’s turn!  He was SO excited to get up in that chair to get his teeth “counted” and cleaned!  He opened up wide, wider, widest….and sat very […]

Knott’s “Scary” Farm

Alex wanted to take a few friends to Knott’s Scary Farm for his 11th birthday.  So this is what we did last Friday night.  The park opened at 7pm and closed at 2am.  We were there until they closed!  I didn’t think these boys could hang that long, but they surprised me!  Heck, I didn’t […]

priest vs. dentist

A.J. had his first CCD class tonight.  For those of you who are not familiar with the Catholic faith, CCD class is their religion class.  (don’t ask me what CCD stands for…isn’t it awful, that I don’t know? any Catholics out there know what it stands for? if so, tell me!)   Anyway, tonight he […]

My seven year old

A.J. loves to write.  He writes all the time.  He writes notes to me during the week, and he writes stories and letters to others. He writes in his journal everyday, too, without being told to.   He also will hand me lists that he makes of all the books he wants me to order […]

The “Left Behind” update….

My sister is expecting her third child any day now — she is about 5 days overdue!  I was secretly hoping for a 10-10-10 birthday for this little one (okay, I guess I was not so secretive about it…I called her a few times that day and left messages like this: Hi Kel!  Just wanted […]

Preschool

Andrew, my sweet little 4-year old, is missing his preschool day today.  Not because he’s sick.  But because he simply doesn’t want to go.  And I’m not in the mood to fight him on it, yet again.  This will be week #4 and he still doesn’t want to go.  It starts bright and early in […]

School decisions, decisions….

UPDATE Aislynn:  The teacher made an announement to the class on how to correctly say Aislynn’s name.  Now all is well.  Everyone says her name correctly, no one calls her Face Lift anymore, and because of all of this, she has made a ton of new friends!!  I don’t know if it was the special […]

Love Song

FOREVER It’s hard to be together But I promise you that I’ll be with you forever. I can’t stop thinking about you. It’s like you’re the one that touches my heart.  **It’s just hard to be together.    I’ll be with you forever…    and that’s not gonna change anything. This was written tonight by […]