Little one, I wish you could have seen your oldest brother’s face when we told him about you. “There’s a baby in Mommy’s tummy,” we said. He beamed. His face positively lit up. We had been talking about it as a family for a while. Oboy, who will be four when you meet him, asked… Read more »
sometimes blogging sucks.

Sometimes you just want it to be enough that you got three people out of bed, dressed, fed, and out of the door to the library on a 15° morning and that you didn’t lose your crap on your almost-two-year-old when he swiped an armful of magazines off the rack onto the floor. Sometimes you… Read more »
my second half

Every once in a while, it will come up and someone will mention how I “ran a half marathon” and I’m pretty quick to correct them that I “finished a half marathon”. I really came pretty close to half-walking, half-running it; I think my pace per mile was 13:45ish. To be fair to myself, I didn’t… Read more »
flipping friday: saturday edition

DanO here. In case y’all are wondering, our house flip is still going on. Amid being in the throws of death, having a family vacation and everything else in life, the house still needs to be fit into our hectic and (certifiably?) crazy lives. While we wait for the weather to warm up (read: Minnesota… Read more »