Saturday night, we attended mass at St. Gabriel’s in McKinney. Hubby dropped us off at the door and went to park. I carried the Lion into the service and Gadget sat next to us. All was well for about five minutes, and then the Lion started talking. He was not using his inside voice, and he was asking a bunch of questions just as the homily started. I asked nicely for him to be quiet,…

I am so grateful to God that he blessed Hubby and I with the ability to bear children. Children are truly a blessing. I made today all about me, and even told Gadget that Mother’s Day was when the daddies and babies took care of the mommies. But now I realize, that today I am honored to be Gadget and the Lion’s mom, and I should be honoring them.

Written in January: I found out almost two weeks ago that I’m pregnant with Victor baby number three, but I don’t feel pregnant. Now, I know, I know, the experts say every pregnancy is different, but this is my fifth pregnancy. I have a little bit of experience with what pregnancy feels like in this one body that I have. On the top ten list of symptoms, I really only have item number ten, a…

To all the working mothers out there with children in daycare, whoa! My hat goes off to you. Today, I respectfully, bow out. Today we gave the daycare thirty day notice. We are going back to our wonderful, blessed nanny. There were multiple factors which lead us to the conclusion that a nanny was in fact absolutely necessary during this stage of our lives, but even so, there were still some reasons tugging at me…