Prairie Garden

Grandpa O     Grandma O Uncle Erik Uncle Andrew and Brenda Unky Ashley   "Uncle" Jayna Great-Gram C (she couldn't stop s...

Yes, yes.  I'm alive.  After a whirlwind that included a weekend of both boys vomiting for 12-hours apiece (the day before we needed to ...

We went to my in-laws last weekend for a mega-late Christmas celebration.  A broken ankle, a new baby, tons of snow, and influenza were some...

Facebook.  What a beautiful curse.  Or hideous blessing.  Which one? I hate Facebook for the fact that it is a timesuck .  It can stir...

All three boys are napping at the same time.  Mega "late" too, due to daylight savings.  I have a Friends of the Library meeting...

My Number One Goal today was to get a picture of the brothers.  I'm contemplating getting a birth announcement out before my babe is 4 m...

Sulcorebutia arenacea This cacti is a descendant of a plant that was half-eaten by a squirrel while it summered on our back patio in Minnea...

Why does salmon and squash taste so good together?  Has anyone else discovered this delightful combination?  It has got to be one of my favo...

I really love this song. (I ended up getting sick, btw.  I can't tell if it is a minor version of the flu or the secondary infectio...

Squeeze went back to work on Monday.  He feels like he is at 80% and took a nap almost as soon as he got home, the poor guy. He missed all...

Just LOOK at these brothers All my sweet babies . . . (cue tears) ♥ This was the week before influenza struck and they haven't been this...

Squeeze has missed four days of work because of it.  Truen had it too. Truby described it as, "my eyes are being bladed" and ...

Yowza.  Life for me at this moment feels like pure survival.  There is so much to do, so many needs and wants to tend to, and only one of me...

Note: In the process of writing this out in lengthy and excruciating detail, I realized that I am writing this mostly for . . . myself.  I ...

Possibly the longest post EVER.  My birth story. Jamie is 1 month old today.  How did that go so fast?  I can hardly believe it.  I don...

I'm going to start Jamie's birth story this afternoon.  I wonder how many days it will take me? In other news: One of the side be...

  Sleeping sweetly in his sling   Awake and pondering the ceiling beams Don't you just LOVE his old-man-pants look? Or the ...

I can't believe it has already been a week since my last post.  Or that Little Jamie is two weeks old!  Or that, in the fact that my lif...

. . . but not much time to write it out. I'm feeling well.  Healing well, though interestingly, I feel like I am recovering from pregn...