— Here’s What I Have to Say —

I finished this book a while ago. Over the summer, actually. I had read the first two books in this series. I had borrowed those books from someone at work. When I was ready to read this one, Chuck had given me my iPad, so I rented it through the library. It was a really...

Here are a few more videos that I had on my camera. The first one is very typical of Maddie.walking around with veggie straws. She loves them. They are really like baby crack. If she sees them, she won’t eat anything but them. So really I use them to get her to sit in her...

I finally got around to uploading some videos we took of Maddie during Christmas. These were when my mom and her crew were over. Maddie with tissue paper.   Maddie being silly.   Maddie & her baby stroller.   Maddie & her baby stroller.   Maddie sitting at the table showing her arsenal of tricks...

I set my camera on the counter the other day and when I came back, I saw that this was on the screen. I decided to take the picture. After I looked at it on a screen larger than my camera, I thought it was kind of pretty with the reflection of the tree in...

I realized I never did an update on the finished porch project. Or many updates at all of the porch. I looked through my old posts and the last entry I found on the porch was in JULY. How terrible is that? Well, we got the roof finished, the porch finished, the deck finished.it turned...

So we had our first Christmas celebrations just before Christmas. I just found a couple pictures from when we were at my step-dad’s family’s house. Here is Maddie sitting on Dave’s (my step-dad) dad’s lap enjoying a book he and his wife gave her. The craziness of all the kids opening their gifts. The little...

First, I have to say a VERY happy birthday to my wonderful husband! He is the best and I would be lost without him. Here’s to being “old like me,” Chuck! Love you! I have some “resolutions” for this year. I hate calling them resolutions, though. They are more like things I want to accomplish...

Yesterday we drove home from Chuck’s mom’s house and Maddie fell asleep in the car. Here is a picture of her sleeping in the car. I love that her hand is in the air and her lips are all puckered.

My mom took this picture of Maddie when we were at her house Christmas morning. I have it has my phone background. I just want to hug her and kiss that little face!

The week before Christmas, Chuck and I were out running some errands. I told him I really wanted a new dust buster. With Maddie eating at her high chair and having a tendency to make a mess, I knew I wanted a new one. I had a Dyson one that I haven’t used in a...

The last few days, Maddie has had a little cold. We had Christmas with my dad and step-mom yesterday and Maddie was happy and having a grand ole time. I put her down for her afternoon nap. When she woke up, (actually, she just kept sleeping so I woke her up at 5:15later than she...

My fabulous husband has outdone himself yet again! He surprised me with a new laptop for Christmas! I was so surprised! I wasn’t expecting it at all. The title for this is because that is what I named my computer. I am a dork, I know.   I love my new toy and have been...

I have been a little obsessed with Thirty-One bags lately. I had a party a few months ago and ended up getting a lot of the things I wanted. I use them all the time. I have one bag that I use for Maddie’s library books. She likes to take all the books out and...

First of all.MERRY CHRISTMAS! Friday night, we had our first Christmas celebration. We had my mom, step-dad, my brothers and my brother’s fiancé. This year we decided that we wouldn’t get gifts for the adults. My mom didn’t really follow the rule, but we were all very happy! Here’s what our tree looked like with...

Maddie learned a new skill last week. She learned how to drink out of a straw. It is so nice! Maddie never liked the bottle after I stopped nursing, so she has been drinking out of a cup that we have had to hold for her. Last week we tried giving her a cup with...

Last weekend we let Maddie go nuts with the ads from the newspaper. She had so much fun tearing them apart. It was a great trial run for opening presents! (I’ll write lots more about that soon!)

Since I am finally starting to catch up on some blog posts, I thought I should write about my birthdayand Anniversary. We didn’t do anything for our anniversary. We did get ourselves a new tv, though. We got one to mount over the fireplace. I love it and I am so glad that we decided...

A couple weeks ago, Maddie and I went to our friends’ house to hang out. Our daughters are just a couple weeks apart. And now that they are both walking, we thought it would be fun to watch them waddle around together. My friend, Trisha, already wrote about our play date. But I thought I...

I got summoned for jury duty for two weeks starting December 12th. Microsoft has a back up daycare service we were able to utilize. So I took Maddy to daycare last week Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. She had a great time! She didn’t really nap, but the teachers said she was so good and played...

I have a number of videos I have taken of Maddy, but I haven’t posted them yet. So here we go! Maddie shakes her head “no” all the time. This is a short video of her doing it. It looks so funny when she does it because her eyes don’t move at the same time....