It’s a hard time of year to lose weight. I had been doing quite well actually. I lost about 30 pounds in 4 weeks after Myles was born, but then it just stopped coming off. Argh! Course I hadn’t been doing much to help it out, it was just the natural postpardom loss, so I can’t take much credit for it. Now I know that I’ve reached the...

I hope you all have enjoyed your today! I have! The one thing that I really miss on Thanksgiving is not getting to watch the Macy’s Day parade. For some reason that was always my ‘thing’ growing up, well my thing besides the black olives and pickle snitching before the meal. We don’t have tv in our house now, and I don’t regret it....

Recently I have felt like I chase my little 19 month old monkey around the house saying things like, “no-no”, “put that back”, “don’t touch!” to mention a few. I realize that at his stage he wants to explore AND push his boundaries. However, I don’t want to be a negative nag all the day long. Giving this some thought...

Our little dudes are getting so cute in how they interact with each other. Of course most of the interaction is on Qade’s part, but Myles is starting to respond. He is becoming more and more smiley and he just has the CUTEST grin!! I love toothless baby grins, they melt your heart! Anyway the other evening Myles was awake and alert, small wonder actually...

Yesterday was a fun day with the family and Stuart got to visit a church that had sent some kids to camp last summer. He went to their evening service and even got to give a short “blurb” about camp and such. The pastor is interested in supporting us, which was a totally unlooked for opportunity. So we will probably be heading back there for a...