Life As I Know It

While watching television a few weeks ago, the host of one of those celebrity gossip shows was interviewing a number of hair and make-up art...

This gem came home from school this week. He was asked to write a story about his family, which he did. He wrote about his Homecoming Da...

Today is Sh.awn's Homecoming Day! On this day 8 years ago, after 90 long days in the NICU, we finally got to bring Sh.awn home from the ...

Last week our old television died, so we were finally able to upgrade to a new TV. The newer version is thinner and lighter than our old ver...

One of the things that has lingered from prematurity for the boys, aside from the medical stuff, is an extreme sensitivity to noise. The sou...

The school is the same. The aide is the same. The kid is the same aside from some minor maturation ten weeks can give a 7 year old. The te...

After I had the boys, I searched and searched for a car that would be roomy enough for us as a family but was still comfortable to drive. Wh...

On Friday, we got our first official notice from the boys' school about next year. I opened it, glanced through it, and quickly put it a...

My room at work is near the center of the school at the end of one of the main hallways. Most teachers pass by my room to get to the offi...

The boys get to play a little iPad each day. Mostly they play learning apps, although at some point not too long ago, the youngest discov...

Why is it that my kids always have to go to the bathroom (read poop) when we have to leave for somewhere? Seriously, we start getting...

"Mom, why are my legs on backwards?" he asked just after dinner. I stopped what I was doing and looked at him. "What do yo...

I've been sitting here in front of a blank screen for a while now. I'll type. I'll erase. Type. Erase. Over and over again. I wo...

Today the big boys go back to school after a three week vacation. It's been a nice break, but unfortunately, it's been long enough f...

I'm lucky in that my boys love to snuggle. It is not unusual for one to crawl up on the couch next to me and wrap their arms around me. ...

For a while now, I've been following the story of an IF couple who find themselves pregnant with with two sets of identical twins . They...

I blocked my first person on FB this weekend. I also blocked my second, third, and fourth person while I was at it. I'm not sure what ...

I spent this weekend dealing with issues of stomach rebellion. It could simply be that my body protests all of the food I've ingested th...

It's Prematurity Awareness Month, so the posts about the topic are starting to pop up all over my feed. Many of them are about how thank...

While researching something unrelated, I stumbled across information on ADHD. I read the symptoms, and I swear I could check every single in...