Today I had a lovely day out with the kids… picnics, playgrounds, zoo, the star, gymnastics.  We did it all!

Sadly, I’m a bit overexhasted now.  To the point I can’t sleep and am mentally obessing and beating myself up over things.  Motherhood can be tough.  Its not the kids that are making it tough, though!  [...]

Here’s the lunches I packed for us to take to the park today!
Starting on the left, from top to bottom: in my box I have homemade yogurt/oatmeal/fresh picked blackberries (Muesli!), second level has apple-cheddar salad (one granny smith apple cut up and drizzled with lime juice and olive oil and salt and pepper with [...]

Don’t David and the kids look sweet here?  You really don’t want to know how I had to threaten Killy to get him to stop acting goofy:

And here is Killian, playing Risk:

Ellie plays for a few minutes, but there’s no way her attention span lasts long enough to get through a whole game of Risk.  [...]

I am a very blessed woman…. I grew up with a wonderful dad, and then I married a man who is a wonderful dad.
This is one of my favorite pictures ever – I have a print of it hanging beside our bed.  This is David the second day after Killy was born.  He was staying [...]

Well, everything I read said that getting an IUD was not painful if you’d already had kids… but I did not find that to be the case.  Our plans had to change last minute due to child-care issues, and I was glad David ended up driving me to and from my appointment.  I’ve spent most [...]

So, probably my least favorite mom-chore is packing lunches… I put so much effort into packing healthy lunches and they’re really not appreciated.  I pack fresh fruit and veggies, whole grains, lean proteins… and my kids always find something to complain about.  The nutrition doesn’t really occur to a little kid, you know?  A typical [...]