Lessons in Motherhood

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Although I have to admit that Christmas is so different than it was when I was a little girl. I remember spending Christmas Eve with my Dad’s family and Christmas Day with my Mom’s family. You don’t realize when you’re young how awesome it is [...]

Even though Luke is out of town this week, I decided to bake cookies with the little ones tonight. Usually, when he’s out of town, I try to keep things simple so as not to exhaust myself by day two of a four day single parenting gig. Eh…it’s Christmas time, and these cookies [...]

We had a delicious and wonderful Thanksgiving here at the Hamilton household. We had both Grandpas and our friend Angie. We cooked from about 11:00am to 5:00pm. The menu included sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, turkey, stuffing, gravy, rolls, and corn pudding. Oh, and let’s not forget the green bean casserole which [...]

Oh Halloween! So much fun for the kiddos. Grandma made Hailey’s costume this year, which was very special for Hailey. Of course, Sophia’s costume was a hand-me-down, but we couldn’t let her know that. So, before we pulled Hailey’s costume out from Grandma’s suitcase, I snuck Sophia’s costume in there too. [...]

Today was my first parent-teacher conference at Hailey’s school. I was really expecting good news and guess what? I got good news. Hailey is fine. She’s doing great. She’s a wonderful girl. I told her all about my discussion with her teacher, gave her tons of praise about her [...]

Sorry for the lack of blog action lately. The family took a long weekend trip up to Nashville for the 4th. I decided to take a much needed break from all responsiblity including this blog. I started to feel bad about it, but then I realized that most of the other blogs [...]

Fine…I’ll admit it. We are a little behind on our picture posting. I realize that it is June and I’m trying to entice you with pictures from Easter, but you know, we’ve been a little busy. Also, there were some technical difficulties and some other things going and also a new camera [...]

So much to be thankful for…

Loving the latches and the books…

What a mess!

I just love this picture. It captures their personalities perfectly.

Rest time

As usual, more pictures available here.

These should give you a sense of how our weekend went.  Not that I haven’t loved every single minute of this weekend, but I’m just a wee bit happy that tomorrow is Monday…
10.  ”I don’t think your sister likes it when you play her head like a bongo.”
9.     “Can you please put a [...]

When your child asks Santa for something, there are no substitutions, replacements or cost restrictions.
I made a fatal error this Christmas.    Santa did not bring Hailey exactly what she wanted for Christmas.  She asked for the Rapunzel tree castle.  I, in my most logical thinking, decided that the princess castle would be more utilitarian. [...]