Author: Michelle

Halloween – Costumes

I think it was right after Eliza Jane was born that someone asked, “What are the kids going to be for Halloween?” I’d already mostly made up my mind, but I was pondering how I would pull it off. You see, last year, Reynolds was Woodstock from Charlie Brown.  I made his costume, head-wear and…

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What A Week

Well, we made it thru our first week and yes, I had a mimosa last night after dinner to celebrate! Several friends along the way asked how I was doing, did I cry the first day, was I holding up ok? No, I didn’t cry the first day.  I was excited.  And thankful. I sometimes…

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Almost Time

It’s almost time for me to go back to work…Eliza Jane to daycare with her big brother and for us to get back to some normalcy. But, what’s the new normal? For anyone who’s had a life change, you know it takes time to find the new normal. Over the last few weeks, I’ve fallen into…

Drip, Drip, Drip

What’s more annoying than a dripping faucet?  All day long…drip. drip. drip…. Our kitchen faucet recently started dripping (from all the bottle washing, I wonder?!) and since it was pretty basic and blah… ..we decided to replace/update it. So Eliza Jane and I went to Lowe’s one day last week and picked one out…then Andrew…

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First Field Trip

Today was Reynolds’ first ever field trip!  And I got to go!! Last week an email was sent out to the parents letting us know that the kids would be taking a field trip to the Robert Mills House to “be introduced to a variety of scarecrows”!  {Click here for more information on Scarecrows in…

Keeping In Touch

I’m going to go all sentimental on you today. I was messaging some friends on Facebook yesterday and one friend, in particular, I realized I haven’t talked to in a really long time.  Just her name brought back so many fond memories.  So I messaged her to find out how her life is (with 3 kids)…