Three Months

| January 20, 2012

Baby Brother. Tomorrow you turn three months. Three whole months of us getting to cuddle with you and squeeze you close as you smile and frown and squeak and sigh and laugh in your sleep. We’ve marveled over your crazy expressive eyebrows, each one independent of the other, and pinched all of your chubby cheeks. [...]

Where Are My Bon-Bons? {You Capture: Cold}

| January 19, 2012

The husband has been “working” from home this month . . . but without a lot of the work part. Unfortunately for him, we’re learning just how needy I can get when he’s sitting right here. “Babe, are you busy? No? Here, can you just hold the baby while I go to the bathroom? Thanks!” [...]

Oh, Weekend

| January 13, 2012

. . . we’re so glad to see you again.

Small Spaces ~ Mixing a Master Bedroom and Nursery

| January 12, 2012

When we made the crazy decision to buy this house – with me 6 months pregnant – we knew it would be a challenge to downsize so much. One of those challenges was the question of where to put the baby, where to designate as the “nursery.” E stayed in my room until she was [...]

Priorities

| January 10, 2012

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday you can stand back and watch a flurry of activity coming from our house. Constantly late, we rush out the door, trailing bookbags and diaperbags and lunchboxes. Seatbelts and latches and buckles are done up, one by hurried one. Away we go as the car slowly begins to heat up, [...]