Ever After

Pacifier use increases the risk of ear infections. Pacifier use causes buck teeth or other dental abnormalities. Pacifier use inhibits evolving social development. Pacifier use is unsanitary. Pacifier use hinders language development and can cause a lisp. Pacifier use delays potty training. Pacifier use beyond infancy hinders the development of self-soothing and stress-management techniques. Pacifier [...]

As a mom with kids that were recently sick, a thermometer reading “98 degrees” is a blessed thing. But as a homeowner seeing the same reading on the thermostat in her bedroom despite the fact that the AC had been running all day while she away, I suddenly was the one feeling SICK! BT whipped [...]

I never knew that ten little fingers could wrap their way around my heart like they have.    One of the things that I cherish about my little Miss Vivi is how she loves to hold my hand . . . but not just HOLD my hand.  She entwines her fingers around mine and squeezes tight.  [...]

A Buck Sixty-Five.  That’s what Bryan claims he weighs.  It’s truly endearing how he tries to make me feel better in my advanced stage of pregnancy, proclaiming a “lofty” weight, thinking that there’s no way that I’ll hit that mark and thus will not feel quite so large. Think again. I can’t comprehend how he could possibly [...]

I like my chocolate bittersweet, not my vacations.  Unfortunately, I’m afraid that the fun the girls and I have as we visit family in Utah over the next three weeks will be tempered by the fact that Bryan is not with us.  Nonetheless, I am grateful that he has a job and that he works so hard to [...]