Category: parenting sure is fun

In Almost Two Weeks

Every morning, my Facebook feed works overtime to refresh all of the newest back-to-school pictures. While I have been loving looking at all the adorable uniforms and the carefully selected first-day-of-school outfits and the giant smiling faces and the new backpacks, lunch boxes, shoes, and haircuts, the big green monster…

Tanner and I are Basically Twins

Emily is back from camp. Her bags are unpacked, her feet are clean—finally. She is already missing camp. My life is essentially like that episode of Full House when DJ and Stephanie come home from Camp Lakota with inside jokes and stories and weird songs and they only wanted to…

You Get a Big Girl Room! And You Get a Big Girl Room!

We moved into our house so long ago I can barely do the math. Actually, that’s kind of a lie. It really hasn’t been that long, and the poor math skills probably have more to do with the fact that I’m only a quarter of the way through my morning…