Raising Grateful Children
Ensuring our children evolve into adults who are altruistic, caring, compassionate and grateful for what they have is on our short list of parenting musts. But it is one of the more challenging and...
View ArticleA truly modern family.
Benjamin has two Dads. There’s his “real Dad” and his “Dad”– Seth. He calls them both “Dad” or “Daddy”, and sometimes I have to ask for clarification, “Do you mean your real dad or Seth?” But 99.9% of...
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He’s making another bag.
And this one is for me. I can not wait. I admit it. I have been silently (and patiently) waiting for the work on this promised bag to begin. We had to survive back-to-back flus, Christmas and then...
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Did you change your last name?
After 10 months of marriage, I am considering changing my last name to Gray. There are a few reasons I have not changed my name after re-marriage: 1. I never changed my name during my first marriage....
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Sunday cleaning
We are cleaning. This weekend it is the basement’s turn. There are piles of toys in need of purging. Last weekend, with the kids all at grandparent’s houses, Seth and I worked around the clock and made...
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Win this bag (thrift fun)
I found this cute Mossimo purse thrifting this weekend. New, with tags. As you can see it retailed for $24.99, but one of you will snag it or free. You know the drill…just leave a comment. I will draw...
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Spring
We can smell spring on the horizon, in spite of the four inches on the ground when we woke up to this morning. Spring is there, on the horizon, waiting to begin. Thanks to Seth, I sleep in now more...
View ArticleI love…
How he leaves the fluffy towel for me and takes the stiff one for himself. How he never, ever complains about all of the cleaning and housework and general maintenance and upkeep of a family of five....
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A surprise
He may have anticipated that one day he could love again. But I don’t think he ever expected to fall in love with her dog, too. They’re made for each other, these two. Just another piece of our...
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My little boy.
Benjamin turned seven last weekend. Seven. The years haven’t flown by. I don’t feel that way at all. I look back on the past seven years as a long, long road to where we are today. There was no flying...
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Mr. Stork
We have been keeping this a secret for the past four months. But now my little 17 week old is too big to hide. We are ecstatic… And yes, it was planned (that seems to be the first question everyone...
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The surprise attack
Typically, I trudge through my birthdays as one would a murky pond- carefully and cautiously stepping through the day, just trying to make it to the other side without a bite or an encounter with some...
View ArticleFoster Raymond Gray
After months of toiling over options Seth’s father threw out the name “Foster” at dinner. Foster was his grandfather’s name, Seth’s great-grand father’s name. So, little Foster will be named after his...
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My guys.
With Benjamin’s father largely uninvolved (he sees him once a month for a few hours, at most), Seth is it. The man who will raise him, teach him right from wrong and the man who will love him...
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I take it back (and where we’ve been),
Nine days ago, I set off with all three kids on a flight to San Francisco to meet Seth. He had driven out a week prior for his little brother’s bachelor party and we were joining him for the wedding....
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Nesting
Foster will be making his debut in five weeks. As a result, I have a serious case of nesting. Not only at home, but at work. With the business being my business and all, I have to make sure all of the...
View ArticleThe finish line
10 days until our official due date… I am hanging on by a thread in the sanity department. I just want to be back to my normal self, walking at a quick pace, off from one place to the next and wearing...
View ArticleHome birth video
I have had so many questions from friends and family about the decision to have a home birth. To Seth and I, this is a natural choice as our siblings were all born at home. Having witnessed my mother...
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The big yellow house.
Living in a 1200 square foot house with four children, one of them a newborn, a 78 pound dog and a husband-man may be tolerable for some, but this mama was losing hope of ever having a private moment...
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This place.
During the first few weeks we couldn’t believe it was ours. We walked from room to room just shaking our heads in disbelief. We had convinced ourselves we would have to wait years to buy a larger home...
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