The Life I Have Imagined

Well it's been a long time since I posted. The kids are teens and almost 15 now.  They are so tall, I wasn't ready for them being ta...

  The kids are huge (both 5'5"). They also weighed the same until very recently, which is wild. He lives for basketball, which had ...

The twins are 11 already! My how the years fly by! They are fifth graders now. They are both killing it at school. They’ve both taken up the...

The twins just turned 10! They are each five feet tall. Not too bad for two preemies who came home weighing barely five pounds each.  They a...

. . . Happy Holidays!!

Which is my favorite month by far, but it's been a crazy year for us all. I started a post back in the winter about the seemingly pressi...

We wondered for years whether you would ever be at all, but still we dreamed of you. And then we lost your big sister. And then they told u...

Happy Summer! The twins just turned 7 1/2!! They are out of school, all about camps (making me a taxi driver), and I just finished my late...

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I should probably make one to do a better job documenting our lives. I completely skipped blo...

Well hello there.  I had started a back to school post back in September, but then life got really crazy and it didn't happen.  The kid...

The year has been a busy one for everyone in our family.  It's been good for us, but rough having both DH's mom and my step-dad wit...

The kids turned five last week and we made it through their crazy last week of school with programs and colds galore.  Then we headed into ...

So I've totally bombed on the blog this year, like nearly a complete epic fail.  So four months later...  I tried to post about the Ham...

It's been a hot and busy summer around here, so I've been off the blogs.  Living and loving real life.  Lots to update: Marielle ...

Well, we finally did it...  We bought a minivan! (and no that's not a pregnancy announcement, we are still a happy family of 4) We...

Happy Friyay!  It's almost Spring and daylight savings time!! One of my most love/hate things about being a parent is managing my kid...

The struggle is real... Our babies turn four next weekend and we'll all be off to the city for a packed long b-day weekend.  We...

So this post is a little late since the kids moved to twin beds a year and a half ago.  Oh well... (fyi, their rooms never look like this i...

And long enough that I've actually been back to work for a week. When I left my full time job 4 1/2 year ago, I had no idea what the ...

The kids started at a new school last week, which they seem to like, but today was their first "full" day, since they did two hou...