Stop Thinking About Me

I love onsies on my babies for many reasons. It keeps them warm, helps keep their shirts from riding up all the time, helps contain diapers that explode (”Exploded!?!”) and they just look so cute in onsies. Shortly after Liv turned one it was Spring and I became less of a onsie Nazi and didn’t [...]

 Yesterday was Olivia’s fourth birthday. She started her day with Daddy taking her out for breakfast. She loves going to restaurants and is always trying to convince Gary to take her to one, and without me.
She came home and I fixed her hair (why does Gary think it is acceptable for Liv to leave the [...]

÷šChristmas of 2005 I asked Liv what she wanted for Christmas. She would tell me the same thing, “A black Barbie.” I was so surprised by her answer because she was not even two years old yet but more surprised because when I was a little girl I too had wanted a black Barbie.÷š I [...]

…to be sung to at a restaurant on my birthday. For the past two birthdays Gary has tried to make this happen for me but so far no luck. I don’t know why I want this, maybe because I have never had it. Maybe because secretly I am an attention hog.
Since it has not worked out for [...]

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 tsp vanilla
1-1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2-1/2 cups quick oats
1-2/3 cups (10 oz. pkg.) HERSHEY’S Cinnamon Chips
3/4 cup raisins (optional)
Beat butter and sugars until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla;beat well. Combine flour and baking soda and add to butter mixture, [...]

 The local newspaper had a Valentine Box contest and I originally wanted to have each of my children (yes, even Baby Gray) make a box to enter. As the deadline grew nearer I realized that I was not going to get it done. Then Mel came over to my house looking for the entry form [...]

I have had to erase several unwanted comments that have made their way through the “comment filter”. All of these comments have popped up on my post about Holden’s 2nd birthday party and the comment is always something like, “Are you alone? Come have fun at my sexy website!” (this is the cleaned up version). I [...]

This is one of my favorite pictures. Melanie held the camera back and said to Mark, “Let’s make fat faces”. Right before Mel clicked Mark held out his head (to minimize the chin and neck) while Mel held hers back (to give maximum chin count). Then he had to make it funnier worse by giving her a [...]

 I have been trying to improve my eating habits since I have had the worst sweet tooth after I had Holden. In my attempt to bridle my sweet tooth passion I have been trying to replace fruit for…hmm, this list could get very long. Let’s just say “anything sweet with an emphasis on chocolate”.
I found [...]

 My Olivia LOVES Back to the Future, or as she calls it, Future. A few months ago I was at the clinic with all of my babies and Gary showed up later. I was on the computer so I was taking too long for Gary and he decided to go home without me. Liv ran [...]