Birthdays stress me out. There I said it. But it isn’t for the reason that most would think. I get stressed out about who to invite. Do we do one GIANT party and I’m talking about schools friends, family friends, family or do we just have a party with school friends or just family friends. […]

Justin was getting annoyed with the lack of effort on my part to finish putting away the holiday decorations–I considered them “winter” decorations and spring only began two weeks ago! But we did need something fresh an new on the door so I did what I always do, went to Pinterest. I really wanted something […]

A few months back I ordered a few new magnets from Sticky9, we were in need of updated magnets for the fridge. I believe I took advantage of the buy 3 get 2 free deal which would have given me 45 magnets, too many for sure but I could easily give away a few to […]

Our time is never long enough at Papa Tom’s and Grandma Sara’s, especially celebrating Christmas so I took a few days off after Christmas and the boys and I headed home to spend a little time in the country. The weather was looking pretty decent and since the boys’ had just gotten their bikes for […]

I try to ensure that the kids visit a pumpkin patch each year. It doesn’t always happen but I like to think that the effort was there and that our days just got away from us. So when Justin signed up for another bbq tournament I knew we had our window. We started the morning […]

I decided to take a mental health day–you know, a day where I take off from work and I don’t do anything for anyone else but myself between the time of 8 am and 4 pm when the bus arrives home. That mental health day that I was so looking forward to, only last until […]

I haven’t been back to Pitt in years & honestly, I think it’s only been once since I have graduated. Justin and I talk about Pitt, the kids have asked a few questions here and there about where we met and we tell them how one day we will take them there. Except we haven’t, […]

So there’s this new thing in KC called iFly, it’s been a round for awhile and I eye it every time we drive by but sadly, I’m the only one who wants to give it a try. Justin doesn’t like amusement park rides, the boys, I thought, were too little so it just didn’t make […]

One of our favorite things about summer is that my niece, Leah, gets to come and spend a few weeks at a time with us. Two years ago it was two weeks, last year it was 3 weeks and now this year we got her two separate times for multiple weeks at a time. Even […]

For good. But it has been quite the roller coaster these past 3 weeks getting here and we weren’t sure if we would. When the call came in from Cherokee Animal Clinic on Friday morning I kind of froze and didn’t even realize I had started to hold my breath. I answered and tried my […]