In honor of Labor Day, here is Noah’s long awaited birth story. One week before our second child’s due date we had a regular check-up with one of our midwives. While at that appointment we talked about my history of low amniotic fluid levels with Grace, our first born.  We decided that I should have…
For the third year in a row, our family was gifted a week at the beach. Â Nate works for a non-profit and one of his donor’s has generously given us the use of his beach house. Â When I grow up and get rich, I want to do crazy-awesome stuff like that! Here are some highlights…
I know many moms who have baby-book-guilt. Â You know what I mean. Â It is that awful I-am-a-bad-mom-because-I-never-finished-the-baby-book feeling. Â There are just so many things to fill out! Â Why do we need to write down the date every. single. time. our kids got a new tooth anyway?!?! Â It is like these books are designed to make…
Grace fell in love with riding on carousels so I decided to make her carousel cake for her 2nd birthday last year. I went to Google for some inspiration and became instantly overwhelmed. Â All the cakes pictured were pretty extreme. Â I wanted something that I could make on my own at home. Â Here is what…
Confession: I always throw away the heel of my store bought bread. I know that is 100% wasteful and sad since there are many people in this world that would love to eat it. I asked on my Facebook page: Do you eat the heel?  What do you do with it? They shared some fantastic…
This little table is in the corner of our dining room. Â It’s main purpose seems to be to collect my clutter. Â Here it is in all it’s cluttered up glory. In this mass of clutter you can find: Thank you cards I wrote months ago, but haven’t mailed Coupons – some expired Discharge papers from…