Our Easter was (mostly) great. We're always excited to have Scott home. His office takes the same holidays as our kids' Catholic school. Benefit of working for the church! For the past several years, we've made Easter weekend one full of hard labor. And, nothing says hard labor like two cubic yards of compost and four palettes of grass. My hamstrings concur. While I was bent over laying sod, Clare says, "You should blog about this, Mom." Scott died laughing. ...

Happy Easter, y'all! What a glorious day. What a glorious savior. I pray your Lent was fruitful, your Holy Week blessed and Easter full of triumphant joy. It won't happen often (if ever again), but our oldest has his birthday today. On Easter! How crazy awesome is that? He's used to having the "Lent birthday" so it's such a nice surprise to have the celebration fall on today. And, even sweeter is that he and my dad share a birthday. ...

Last week, one of my favorite photographers (who has become a friend!) gave me a heads up that BabyCenter.com may be calling after seeing this photo. They did and I was so honored, y'all! We chatted birth stories, breastfeeding, weaning and beautiful photos. I absolutely loved it, and I hope you do, too. Here's a sneak peek of some of the photos and a link to the blog post over at BabyCenter. Lei, thanks so much for taking photos I'll treasure ...

Spring break, be still my heart. But, Daylight Savings? I've got nothing for you. Dinner feels like lunch and breakfast is brunch because I can't get my lazy self out of bed. Next Monday is gonna sting, but for now, I'll just lean into it. We started off our week with a little detour into the Texas hill country in search of bluebonnets. We found one. Not an exaggeration. I think we're about two weeks too early. But don't you ...

Life has been full these past few weeks. Fun surprises, *the* boots, talent shows, an unexpected call from Babycenter.com (more on that later this week). Always a barrel of monkeys here. Let's break it down in five. -1- If you follow me on Instagram, you know how excited (and nervous) I was about this. Two months ago, I submitted one of my blog posts to the show, "Listen to Your Mother." I was thrilled to get the email I'd made ...

This week I found myself running more errands than usual. It can probably be summed up in one word: procrastination. Those items to return, new shoes to buy, sports equipment to exchange and groceries for the hungry people in my house finally caught up to me. Poor Gianna. She lives in the carseat. During one of those errands - pretty sure it was Costco and I could've sworn I saw Grace and Rachel (oh wait, I was checking Instagram) - ...