Kindergarten Readiness?

January 10, 2011

Is your preschooler ready for Kindergarten? I love our school and the administrators are always so nice. Heather Churney is looking for Mom’s Groups in the Orange County, California area to speak at regarding your preschoolers. I know there are a lot of MOPS and MOMS groups out there and Heather would be a great [...]

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A Few Updates from December 2010

January 9, 2011

Just a quick note that I backdated a few posts into last month. If you are just visiting you may have missed them! I think I’m done with backdating but I had to do a few recaps of her 5th birthday and Christmas things! Happy 5th Birthday, Sammie! Sam’s Holiday Recitals Thanksgiving 2010

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Crohn’s Disease: The Answer after Years of Searching

January 5, 2011

I just realized today that when you search for years to find an answer to a problem the ending is generally a surprise.  I finally do have an answer but it was something that I didn’t expect. Probably because I didn’t really expect ANYTHING so to now have a name to my problem is pretty [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2010

We already had one stop tonight and the kids (and us!) are overwhelmed with beautiful presents but most of all, we had a lovely time eating turkey dinner and just enjoying some quiet time with family today! We had tons of fun giving gifts today, including baking some yummy banana nut bread. Tomorrow we look [...]

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Christmas Vignette

December 15, 2010

The scene: Snuggling on Sam’s bed and reading a mountain of books to her as she continues to feel sick from the flu. GG is playing nearby. The book: Bob: And 6 More Christmas Stories by Sandra Boyton Me: GG, what do YOU want for Christmas? GG: I want a candy cane for Christmas! Me: [...]

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Sick and Nurturing

December 10, 2010

Yes, yes, Happy Birthday to my beautiful amazing 5 year old! I have a longer post that will be going out later… Hopefully. And yes, I’m TOTALLY going to backdate it for yesterday. But my poor baby G is sick again. I just looked at my blog posts last year and I didn’t POST about [...]

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Happy 5th Birthday, Sammie!

December 9, 2010

Happy Birthday to my beautiful 5 year old! Just a note that I am totally writing this on JANUARY 9th but I am back-dating it to December so I can find it later! Isn’t she gorgeous? Beautiful dress that she received from Grandma JJ the night before and she let me braid her hair.  We [...]

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Sam’s Holiday Recitals

December 7, 2010

We had an exciting birthday week in December for Sam. We had her holiday singing recital at school where we all dressed up and got to listen to all the preschoolers sing. So cute! Sam wore her new lady bug clippies and her Christmas dress. It was also her All About Me week at school! [...]

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Straight No Chaser: Christmas Music and MORE

December 6, 2010

Wow! I heard the 12 Days of Christmas from Straight No Chaser on XM Radio a few nights ago. I ‘Shazam’d’ it right away and thought about it for a few minutes, looked over their other songs, and bought the full album ‘Holiday Spirits’!! I figured I have to slowly build up my Christmas music [...]

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Some Fabulous Romance Reads

December 4, 2010

Just a quick note on what I have read in the past few weeks. I keep going on and off reading books because I have so much going on but when I start a book, and it turns good… I always have to finish it! Courtney Milan – Trial by Desire This is Courtney Milan’s [...]

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Rock Your Heart with the Wii

November 29, 2010

I’m late to the Wii party. I don’t have one. I hardly play one. But APPARENTLY there is this kinda super awesome Wii Fit program that yells at you and kicks your ass to loose weight. Or something. Have you heard of it? Apparently it was all the rage LAST year which makes sense why [...]

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Mailing Addresses, Contacts, Being Organized – HELP

November 28, 2010

Wisdom of the masses…. HELP! I used to have my contacts in Outlook. Then, I moved to an iPhone and I had duplicate contacts and I never used Outlook anymore so I kept them in Google/Gmail.  My computer freaked out and I lost all my data, including Outlook, so I had my backup from Google [...]

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Thanksgiving 2010

November 25, 2010

We went to Big Bear for Thanksgiving again this year. I am actually writing this in January but backdating the post so it’s in the right month! We had a delightful time and were not snowed in this time. Probably because we ended up leaving early to miss the big storm! We did sledding, snow [...]

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Thankful

November 24, 2010

I’m thankful for my amazing family. My husband who is so patient, thoughtful, and smart. My daughter who luckily gets her sense of humor and smart brain from her father, her empathy from (both!) of her Grandmothers, and her beautiful smile. My son for his sweet and loving personality, his inquisitive nature, and his ability [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Ring Pops

November 17, 2010
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