I know I'll miss these years, too. Just like I miss the early days of Ryan and Erica. I wrote that line in 2007, two years after Ryan and I were married. I was looking back on the euphoria of our dating days and looking forward to the excitement of adding a baby to our family. Three months …
Why We Gave Up on Datenight
It comes down to one simple reason. I'm tired. I think it goes with the territory for, oh, twenty years or so when you are a parent. When our boys were little, only my husband or I could put them down for the night. So we'd plan to have a friend or a babysitter come over after they fell …
8 Easy Alternatives to Family Dinner
The book The Secrets of Happy Families has gotten me all fired up about being intentional with our family this year. I'm sure you've heard about the benefits before, but author Bruce Feiler talks about family dinner as "the single biggest predictor of better academic achievement and fewer behavior …
Why It Means Everything When You Notice My Baby
If you stoop down and catch her eyes, she will smile at you all the way to her toes. And my three-year-old? He'll show you his superman sunglasses and launch into a monologue that you may not understand, while my five-year-old blurts out that he's in kindergarten (because he's just that …
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The App that Turns Pictures into Watercolors
Have you heard of Waterlogue? It's an addicting app that lets you make art in about ten seconds. :) You choose the photo, a watercolor style, and a couple of other easy features. Then you watch it process your photo. It costs $2.99, but if you wanted to add a watercolor print to your gallery wall …
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Marital Progress
We were making a right turn onto a one-lane highway in Half Moon Bay when he said it. We had three kids (whom we sometimes can't believe are ours) filling the row behind us, and I had my arms folded (tellingly) in the passenger seat. Ryan: "I finally learn what not to say, and you learn to read my …
