As the summer season threatens to end, I have been savoring every last day of warmth and sunshine as best as I can. I feel like we’ve been trapped indoors all summer due to the stifling heat. Now that it has cooled slightly, despite the humidity, we’ve been spending a lot of time outdoors. I drove up to Wisconsin on Sunday night to spend some time with my family and I am still here (until late this afternoon). No offense to the lovely people of Illinois, many of whom are …

This is a story of stupidity.
I was stupid when I set the keys down in the trunk while looking for Micah’s tennis shoes. I was not thinking when I shut the trunk. I was smacking myself in the forehead when I realized that my keys were in the trunk.
Kia was stupid when they made a car, the Rio, without a trunk release. Every time I need to get something out of the trunk, I have to take the key out of the ignition to go open it. Kia was not …

Aren’t you excited? After three weeks, we are finally done with our basement project. I am enjoying the ambiance of our new movie room as I write this. For a long time, our basement was organized, but still very plain. Eric was gaming down here, so his desk was set up in the corner. The walls were painted white, which brightened it up quite a bit. The floors were still plain concrete, however, and everything we had stored down here was sitting in plain site. It wasn’t exactly pretty. Or …

Monday is recovery day: recovery from the weekend madness that leaves my kiddo’s schedule out of whack and my house looking really crapalicious. (<– Love that sentence.)  Except this week, my weekend was extended through Monday because it was my mom’s birthday yesterday. I spent the night at her house on Sunday night and the day with her yesterday. We had fun taking Micah to the library and enjoyed a nice dinner at Olive Garden with the family last night.

I got home last night and smirked at my messy kitchen. …

Many of you already know Micah has a super cool double tooth. I could not wait to see what it would look like once it grow completely in. Now that is has, I’m surprised by how normal it looks. Is this just because I’m used to it? Or is it because it really is not that noticable?

All of his incisors have at least broken through, so the only teeth remaining are the 2nd year molars. That means teething is almost over!!
Eric recently did some computer work for an old coworker, …

I once told a friend, who was expecting at the time, that life as a stay-at-home-mom is as busy as you make it. Sure, you could sit around in your sweatpants and watch Netflix all day, but for me, and for other moms as well, life has gotten even busier than it was when I was working full time. I’m not just taking care of my little boy and the house, I’m also writing professionally, starting up my own photography business, and currently I’m finishing a room in the basement …

I found these berries at the top of the hill in my neighborhood. They were growing at the edge of an empty cul-de-sac. Does anyone know what type of berries these are? Are they poisonous?

Once in a while I like to do product reviews for my pregnancy blog on Families.com. Today a beautiful package arrived and I got to taste test and review three flavors of Bellybar snack bars and chews.  You can check out the review here. What I can’t get over is the presentation. Very rarely do these products arrive in any anything more than bubble wrap, but check out this pretty pink packaging. I love it!

We’re still stranded on the loveliest island known as our house. I can’t think of a better place to be stuck (in an upside down mortgage, that is), but every day I dream about how nice it would be to move to Roscoe. Roscoe is the home of Eric’s brand new job! Did I tell you he got a new job? I have been waiting to talk about it until it was completely official. He just finished his first week at a cutting tools company. He is an IT guy, training …

A little over a week ago, I took some pictures of my mom with Micah to use for her birthday invitations. She is turning 50 in a few weeks, but you would never know it by looking at her! Isn’t she beautiful? She will die when she reads this because she is so humble, but I have always admired her beauty and when I was little I loved to watch her get ready in the mornings. Sometimes she would give us “makeovers” when we were little. We had a lot …