Usually, people joyfully anticipate the birth of their children. But not me. This was not my first rodeo. My first child had rocked my world. (You NEED to read that story first so that this part two will have more weight to it. But since I know some of you are rebels, let […]
Family Update: Spring ’14
Spring has been good to us here in Texas! This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about that here. Loopy loves to bounce and throw things. He’s constant motion and noise. He’s very serious about music, directing the whole family what “instruments” they should play and how we should dance […]
Lumpy’s Birth Story (for all those birth junkies out there)
(This was written days after Lumpy was born. Forgive any typos, I was/am sleep deprived.) www.photosbylei.com With Loopy, I started labor 5 days before my due date, so I was expecting to have Lumpy a couple days before my due date; April 26th. Well that didn’t happen. But in the wee hours of the morning […]
Family Update: Lumpy’s Here!
Well, I’ve been away from the blog world for awhile. Mostly because I can’t bare to take my eyes off our new arrival. Lumpy is already six months old and the most common word I use to describe him is “jolly”. Alright, alright, “huge” is the most used word, but “jolly” is a close second. […]
Our attempt at PRE-preschool
I’ve always known I wanted to home school my kids. I won’t go into the myriad of reasons now, but I just couldn’t picture our life any other way. I thought with Owen I would wait to start formal school till he was 4-5. I believe these super early years should be mostly play and […]




