Cool Fall days tempt the bugs to find warmth inside a home. Poor Mercedes recently found one of these, now a dead wasp, by our sliding glass door and tried to eat it (as she does with everything she can get her hands on). The result was a poke on her little lip by the [...]
My amazing husband pulled off a big surprise this week! Without my knowing, he started calling two months ago to get tickets for the new musical, “Little House on the Prairie.” I was a huge fan of the show as a kid after my mom got us hooked on the books. I’ve read the series [...]
One thing I’ve learned this year is: when life is stressful, it’s not just about cutting things out, it’s making sure I’m putting the right things in! Things like: An hour at the gym in the morning isn’t only healthy, it makes me feel good about myself and gives me a bit of “me time” [...]
We’ve had a lot of fun this summer at the big Lifetime pool, with our little kiddie pool at home, and at the local lake, but nothing was quite as fun as a week at Wesley Acres Family Camp!!! We took the long drive (18 hours of drive time plus stops to eat, take care [...]
I’ve been wanting to write a lot lately, but time keeps slipping by! All those things I heard most of my life, “A mother’s work is never done”, “moms don’t get sick days”, “being a mom is the hardest job ever”, and more – I never really believed it before. It’s all starting to make sense now! 
But even as busy as the days can be, I love the quite evenings with my husband after our young kids have gone to bed. The “job” of being a mom does end for me each evening in a sense, but you’re just “on-call” all night long and often put in extra hours of overtime. But this is just a side note…
I’m not exactly sure all I want to write in these few minutes I have, but I wanted to follow up to my last blog…
I’ve asked the same question to my “mom friends” for the past few months…
“Please tell me it gets easier!” …
Summer is here!!! Well, okay – it’s still Spring until late June technically. But the outdoor pool is open at Lifetime and I’m remembering that our air conditioner is broke in the van. It’s time for shorts and tank tops, eating watermelon, and the sun shines well past dinner! I want to try and cherish [...]
This week Mercedes reached four months of age! It was time for another routine check-up and her second round of immunizations…
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Today was our last “mom’s group” for the year. We take a break from our weekly visits and plan on a few casual get-together until the Fall rolls around once again.
I was late this morning, because I’m a mom really – a fitting excuse. My morning started off a bit late after a night of having both my kids wake me up numerous times…
…few people have heard of Eureka (usually because they took a trip on Hwy 101) and even fewer have really experienced the culture of Humboldt Co. But maybe it’s just one of California’s best kept secrets…
One of my favorite lunch spots in my hometown (Eureka, CA) is Obento, a delicious sushi deli. My love for sushi began here…
This week was sandwiched with doctor visits. Monday I took Mercedes in for her two month checkup and we returned to Dr. Johanson on Friday for Jakob’s two year checkup…
Being the youngest in my family and also enjoying photography I thought I’d continue to take a lot of pictures with my second baby. Naturally I have taken less than the terabyte I took with Jakob, but apparently I haven’t taken enough…
I love watching TLC’s Baby Story and hearing about other people’s “labor stories.” While pregnant, I had a hard time imagining this labor any different than my first time. But it’s fun to now have a second labor story, full of both similarities and differences. I thought I’d do a brief run-through of how it [...]
