I don't frequent the mall. Most of my shopping is done online for now. Of course, most of my shopping is for two small boys. My clothes,...

It's amazing how very little time I have at the computer where I have two free hands. If I'm sitting down, I'm either nursing or...

I will never buy my children clothes with licensed characters on them . . . I've added a new category to the blog. It's called ...

Today was my last appointment for this pregnancy and birth. The six week check up. I'm officially released into the wild again. I am sad...

Disclaimer: My family can be weird. Shut up. So can yours. Yes, I'm about to tell you that I read important family news on my mother...

Gratuitous picture of my beautiful boys. Bird always wants to hold Squeak. It's sweet and a little dangerous all at the same time. He...

There is a point that is reached in blogging - a point of no return from whatever has been keeping you from writing. It is at this point whe...

This is how I started Bird's birth story , and I think it still applies with some minor edits: I'm reminded more and more that this ...

It's difficult to find time to write when nursing is a two handed - who are we kidding - a 4 to 6 handed adventure. By the time little o...

He's here and he's beautiful. I'm working on his birth story, but I don't want to leave any little bit of it out. Any part o...

So I'm not going to live blog this birth or anything, but I'll probably Tweet it. Or at least update my Facebook status. That'...

The silence doesn't mean much. It's just me turning inward a little, focusing on the job I have to do in the next couple of weeks. F...

Dear Asshole Who Just Stole My Purse, Really? You take purses from the parking lot of a nice city park where families take their children to...

Right before Christmas, Kevin and I took the kids to Great Wolf Lodge. It was a great way to get away with them before the new baby comes, a...

This past holiday season, my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I pointed her to my Amazon wish list. She replied, "But it's...

Kevin and I have tried to marry our very different family culinary traditions during the winter holidays. I have loved learning to make piro...

Kevin has declared 2009 the year in which nothing was finished. My new shiny outlook gets to declare 2009 the year in which many things bega...

Why is that during the times I have the most to say, I find it hardest to say anything at all? Two weeks ago, I had the most productive appo...

On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me A broken washing machine. On the second day of Christmas My true love gave to me Bird...

The stockings are hung by the chimney with care. The presents are wrapped and under the tree. The pirogi are in the fridge and Papa has boug...