Thank you so much for all your tips on how to get the earring back in her ear. Of course today, the other earring came out! I feel like something must have been wrong with these earrings to come out so easily since it didn't happen to my other girls, but who knows. Unfortunately, she was so traumatized by the first incident she wouldn't let me near her ear to even try to put it back ...

I think it is safe to say I do not like winter. I've been reading everyone's Facebook status's sharing their below 0 temperatures and I'm secretly thinking... "It doesn't matter to me, I'm not planning on leaving my house anyway." Except I had to open my back door a few times today. First, because I caught my boys skateboarding on our frozen pool cover. Although it did look like a bunch ...

Today was a great day. We got all our school finished, the kids played, read books, and generally had a good day. We've had bags of leaves in our backyard for two months, or so. For some reason I decided that today was the day to get them to the curb. So my big boys took care of it. And since we are from Florida one of them thought wearing a hoodie would be sufficient. There he is curled ...

Not having a birthday is so much better. Today I decided to stop trying to be everything and decided to just be. There was a lot of stuff that needed to get done that didn't get done. Tons. But when I tucked my girls in bed, my nine-year-old said to me, "Today seemed like the days we had when daddy was here, fun." I kissed her on the cheek and promised her tomorrow would be the ...