When mom is down for the count…
…Jordan seems to be just fine. I spent a large chunk of the weekend super sick. Gross sick. The kind of sick you don’t really explain. So that left me without many parenting duties this weekend. Our Labor Day was spent lazily while I labored back to health. The big bummer? I didn’t get to…
Read More +Oldest vs. Youngest
Jordan is super upset she’s the youngest child in our household. To make matters worse, most of her good friends are twins or older siblings in their respective households. Yesterday, another wonderful family we know who has a super sweet daughter welcomed another little one into their home… And that means another sweet friend of…
Read More +Skin drama
I won’t post a picture… because it just isn’t very pretty. But Jordan’s skin is breaking down from all of her prosthetic use this summer. She’s had rashes before, but the one she has on her little arm is pretty painful. It’s bumpy… and lumpy… and we’re using Desitin to cover it at night to…
Read More +Festival Fun
We continue to have amazing adventures each weekend. This weekend we spent time with our friends Tim and Renee and their awesome son and enjoyed a ton of music at St. Louis’ inaugural LouFest music festival. Randy and I have gone to a lot of music festivals in our time together… But we’ve never been…
Read More +Showing pride
I visit a local team spirit store at the end of each summer to prepare for the football season. I usually find a chance to take the kids to at least one football game to support the University of Missouri’s team. So I let them dress up. This year I found a couple of really…
Read More +Keeping so busy!
Jordan is the busiest kid on earth (and so is her brother). In the last two weeks she attended a super fun Pinkalicious tea party, started soccer, got to go to a St. Louis Cardinals game AND the Magic House. She had SO much fun. To add to it all, she’s fighting naps at school…
Read More +If you can't say anything nice…
I’ve found I often clam up on my blogs when I’m under stress or overwhelmed with my mommy world. It’s too bad because there are so many supportive moms out in the blog world. A couple of weekends ago, I followed many of my online and “in real life” friends who attended the BlogHer 2010…
Read More +Vacation memory: A view into the future
I went straight from vacation and into knee surgery, so I’m still going through all of the video and photos I took during our adventures this summer. I found this video that I had to share. Jordan and I were hanging out on the rocks near one of our favorite coves in Maine when Jordan…
Read More +Free play vs. Scheduled play
When I grew up I had a friend who did everything. She played piano, she danced, she did sports. I thought that was really cool but I never got a chance to play with her because she was always somewhere doing one of her activities. I had one thing. First it was dance, then piano,…
Read More +Helper Arm Buy-In
Jordan’s on track again. She was rude and obnoxious after returning to regular life from a long vacation and a week with her grandparents. To make things more challenging, I’m still healing from knee surgery and Jordan’s dad left to teach journalists in China. Luckily my mom arrived to help me care for the kids…
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