One January Night at Dinner

You just gotta love kids. Sometimes I just have to laugh at the goings on in our household. If I don't write these things down as they happen, I won't remember them for long.

Heard at the dinner table tonight:

Kelsey - "These carrots are bad for me."

Reilly - "Can I take my pants off?"

Kelsey - "I don't like the jello part of the tomatoes, or the seeds. I just like the crust."

Just a few random musings from the end of our day.
I love it here....

Auntie Rop, aka Nee-Nee

Today my sister Robyn joins the ranks of the 30-somethings. What a milestone -- your 20s are over my dear. On this significant birthday, I have been thinking about my dear sister and some of the things that make our relationship unique.

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Robyn is about the only person that I can talk to on the phone for more than 3 hours at a time, and still quite easily and quite possibly have another conversation with later that day. My husband stands in awe of this; he can't understand what two people could possibly have to talk about for that length of time. I couldn't tell you either, and probably neither could Robyn, but I do know that there is no silence on the line during that time, so we must be talking about something....

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I remember during university, crashing on the living room floor with Robyn; no mattress, no blanket, just a jacket each to cover us overnight because she had come to the city to help me pack up my place and move yet again, just as she'd always done at the end of each school year (except that particular year we packed up the bed and the blankets by mistake...).

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Or the time I had to drive to Tennessee for my 4-month internship, and she did not hesitate to make the 5-day trip across the country with me. (Of course it might not have been a 5-day trip if we didn't have to head due east toward the Great Lakes so SOMEONE could see Mt. Rushmore...).

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Since I've had children, Auntie Robyn (affectionately known as Auntie Rop to Luke and Nee-Nee to the twins) has given of herself consistently in ways that are far beyond the duties of a kid sister.

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When Luke's due date was approaching, and we thought he might be coming a little sooner than expected, who jumped in the car in Merritt, B.C. around 7 pm that evening and drove down to Corvallis, Oregon through the night, "just in case"? Yup, you guessed it.....Rop! (Turns out Luke was just trickin' us after all!).

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Now as a sleep-deprived mother of 3, when Nee-Nee comes to visit, mama gets to sleep in! And we're not talking about just one or two mornings here. We're talkin' EVERY SINGLE MORNING that she's with us! And we're not talking kids that get up at the crack of 9 or 10. We're talkin' EARLY RISERS here! This alone is such a huge gift! I so can not wait to return that favor to her someday, so she can really understand how huge it is!

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We are sad to live so far from Auntie Robyn now. Like a 9-hour drive wasn't far enough already. However, we do understand that the move up to the North Pole was definitely the right move to make for her at this point in her life. Thank goodness there's always those marathon phone sessions....

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Happy 30th Robbie-Dob!!

Breakfast with Kelsey

This morning I got a rare treat....one on one time with one of my girls. I was up early to workout, and before I could sneak into the shower, Kelsey was up and around. We sat at the kitchen table and ate Cheerios together before anyone else was up. It was calm and peaceful, and I couldn't help appreciating her addition of her new pink fuzzy fedora from the dollar store to her pajama ensemble...

The blog.

What is a busy mom to do?


Three beautiful children,
creating moments and
memories every day.


A love of photos and preserving
those memories, but little time
at the end of the day to do so.




Enter blogging.


A blog.

My blog.

A place where this busy mom can tuck away
little snippets of everyday life that make up
our memories and define our family.

Little things like the snow in Meacham being taller than Kelsey.

Or Reilly falling asleep in her pillowcase.

It's a new year, and my resolution is to celebrate
these small pieces of life that define our family of 5.