May 1, 2012

international friends

The girls had an extra-special playdate yesterday. Noah’s parents’ billeted Watoto kids came over for a couple hours and had a total blast. The girls asked over and over and over, “Are the Watoto kids here yet? When are they coming? Are they almost here? WHY AREN’T THEY HERE YET?” All four girls went straight [...]

April 9, 2012

Sleep-Training, Night Three (and other stories)

So. Night Three. It … was. Preston went to bed at about 7:30pm, which is kind of late for him, but we were celebrating my father-in-law’s 55th birthday and Preston was enjoying some delicious house plants chocolate cake. Chocolate cake and birthdays are much better than going to bed on time. Presto-puff woke for the [...]

April 1, 2012

springy

I’m coming up for air from my Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon. I have this thing where if I start a TV series, I can’t stop until I finish it. I hadn’t seen a single episode of Buffy until a couple weeks ago, and now I’m hooked. I think I’m on Episode #111. Season 6, [...]

March 26, 2012

Monday bits

I’m eating coffee cake for breakfast. Two babies are sleeping. I’m catching up on my DVR’d shows. It is bright and sunny and warm outside. Monday is not starting out so bad FaceTime’ing with Dad last weekend My boy is feeling better today. Hooray! He went a couple days last week with a high fever, [...]

March 8, 2012

room switching, a snow day, and double the babies

Your captions for the last post were superb. They had me laughing. The only thing I could come up with was “STUPIFY!” I’ve been reading a lot of Harry Potter lately, can you tell? Noah told me Monday night that we were expected to receive many inches of snow. I didn’t think too much of [...]