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Before anyone gets too nervous, we did not, in fact, add a third dog to our pack. Nope, this little cutie is my parents’ new pup. He was a birthday present to my mom, and he shares a birthday with Carrie. He doesn’t have a name yet, despite Carrie’s insistence that he should be called [...]
Among lots of other wonderful things, I got a new game for Christmas: Shear Panic. Now, purely from a gaming perspective it may not be the absolute best game out there, but it has two really strong things going for it: 1. it’s fun to play. 2. it has sheep! 11 sheep figurines, which are [...]
I don’t know if you believe in Christmas or if you have presents underneath a Christmas tree but if you believe in love that will be more than enough for you to come and celebrate with me for I have held the precious gift that love brings even though I never saw a Christmas star [...]
Dear Carolyn, Today you are 26 months old. It’s also Grandma’s birthday and Christmas Eve, so it’s been a very exciting day. This has been the month of songs. You still can’t carry a tune in a bucket, but you know the words to so many new songs. A lot of them are the songs [...]
The other night we had a surprise birthday dinner for my mom at a Chinese restaurant. (Coincidentally, the only food I actually wanted to eat those first couple of months I was pregnant was the chicken & asparagus takeout from this place. Mmmmm.) Carrie insisted on having “chops!” so I rigged up a pair of [...]
Does anyone remember the strange dog fabric Carrie picked out a few months ago? Well, I didn’t use it for its intended purpose. Instead, I reverse-engineered the fancy envelope style pillowcases I ordered with Carrie’s toddler-sized pillow and made one out of this fabric: She was so excited when I put it on her pillow [...]
This morning we decorated cookies during playgroup. Imagine four toddlers, icing, sprinkles and cookies. Now imagine four moms trying to prevent the four toddlers from sticking the icing spoons in their mouths and biting or licking every cookie they were decorating. It really was that much fun! Carrie had a really interesting way of putting [...]
OK, so who had the brilliant idea to put Carrie in a toddler bed less than a week before we went on a five day trip?!? (I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t me. If it were me, I’d keep her in the crib until she mentioned that none of her school friends sleep in [...]
I had a wonderful birthday today, very low-key and perfect. My mom made my favorite soup for dinner, and I got some very thoughtful gifts. It’s funny – I generally don’t like giving gift cards or certificates, but I adore receiving them, especially when they’re from my favorite specialty craft stores – it means I [...]
We’ve been experimenting with the inflatable toddler bed I bought this summer in the hopes that Carrie would sleep in it on our Disney trip. Yesterday we tried starting her out in it for both her nap and bedtime, but both times she asked to sleep in her crib not long after. Today at nap [...]