This weekend marks our wedding anniversary. Though the happy date is actually Monday, our goal was to celebrate the joyous occasion this weekend. This year has a nice symmetry to it - it marks 8 years married and 16 years together as a couple. It also marks the fact that I've now known John for half my life; next year, we'll have been a couple ( Read more... )

...were lovely, this weekend.

( It started with a nice family evening on Friday. )

So, we're home again. We actually got home late Monday night, to the wet, dreary, gray New England rain.

I did manage to catch pneumonia and lose my voice, and didn't really feel "human" again until about Wednesday or Thursday of last week... and as long as I took it easy and didn't exert myself, I felt "healthy" (any major exertion, and my ( Read more... )

If anyone ever wanted a good taskmaster for getting in shape, using the Wii FIT in front of two little boys who think the "games" are very cool and demand that Mommy play them over and over and over again is one great way to do it. Thankfully, Zachary's favorite game involves balance, but Joshua's favorite happens to be running, and he couldn't ( Read more... )

I have been horribly lax in updating my journal lately, and there are so many things I really need to back-post about, from Daemo & k_beckett's wonderful wedding to our anniversary to hilariarex's bachelorette party, and many other wonderful moments ( Read more... )

As a parent, there is nothing so horrible as your children being sick or injured or in pain, and there's really nothing you can do about it, except hug and rock and sing and be with them ( Read more... )

We have, at last, reached that stage with Zachary that is both good and hard for the parent ( Read more... )

Children do indeed make the world a more wonderful place ( Read more... )

Joshua drew the most adorable picture of Zachary crawling the other day... it was awesome! I mean, sure, it was a kid's drawing, but it was still cool, especially to get the dialogue as he drew it ( Read more... )

Potty Training is definitely one of the least fun things of parenting - that is, if you have a child who is deeply embarrassed about his bodily functions, anxious over using the potty, and bursts into hysterical tears if you push the slightest too hard. We've probably tried every strategy in the book and then some, and sadly letting him come to it ( Read more... )