parenting « Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

Tell me a story

Lately, Levi has been obsessed with books. Not only are they entertaining but if he asks just the right way, a book can delay bedtime by a good 10 to 15 minutes. The right way means he’s not standing on his bed screaming READING ME A STORY hysterically at the top of his nearly 3 [...]

My kids totally kick cute’s ass.

Screw cute, they are like super mega ultra adorable times 10

And as long promised, Levi singing Juicy

They say it’s your due date

I find it pretty shocking too. Now that you are six weeks (YES! Six weeks!), you’ve finally started waking up

and checking out the world.

During the previous six weeks, you mostly woke up to do some of this

or this

and to eat. Oh lord little Saffi how you eat! Of course, I think you eat so [...]

Trying to piece it together: the arrival of Saffi Ann

I kept opening this page and staring blankly at the screen. The words just would not come. I could prattle on endlessly about the kids, about how Saffi has just fallen right into our family rhythm without us skipping a beat but I have been tearfully struggling to piece together her birth story.

My best [...]

Baby Names: beating a dead horse

I was so hopeful, things started out promising. I avoided nagging him and he soon came around to discussing names. The man who had a bird named bird, named our first dog after his nephew and pretty much refused to discuss names until our last son was actually born, leaving wee #4 nameless for several [...]