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  E4 cut five teeth in six weeks.  It was a rough six weeks, but really if you think about how she must have felt most of that time, it wasn’t too bad.

  I’ve had a picture in my head for a while now- E4’s hand reaching for a flower- and so with K’s help holding her I tried to create what I’m seeing in my head.  It turned out okay, but it’s still not what I’m imagining.  I’m sure this will be one I’ll try again, […]

  I had a very good day- My kids took me out to lunch, and the whole day was very laid back and relaxing.  I’m not saying I’m sleep deprived or anything, but it took me quite a while to figure out the colors of the balloons were for my 3 daughters and 1 son.

  When I and my sister and brother were growing up, it was always a tradition that my mom made and decorated our birthday cakes.  That was a tradition I really wanted to continue with my own kids, but by the fourth birthday that tradition didn’t hold up for E2- he doesn’t like cake.  So now the tradition for his […]

  We had to go pick up the work van from the brake shop, so to make it fun we experimented with several physics principles- namely wind resistance, friction and inertia. 🙂

  When I was small, I remember my parents talking about how things were when they were little, especially the things they did or didn’t have or remembered their family getting later in their childhood.  Microwaves, televisions, top-loading automatic washing machines, so many things that at the time just seemed such a part of life it was virtually impossible […]

  We met K’s parents for lunch at the mall since we all wanted to shop the one-day sale at JCPenney.

  Another of my mom’s gorgeous wall quilts.

  This picture was a little early to be for Mother’s Day, but since it was coming up, I had been thinking about my mom quite a bit.  I was folding clothes in the family room and the quilted wallhanging my mom had made for my birthday a few years ago caught my eye.  It always […]

  Most of the houses in our neighborhood have so many beautiful flowers in their yards.  It’s hard not to just take flower pictures when we’re out and use those for all of my daily pictures.