Connor and Helen Grow Up

Playing soccer is hard work - and the practices can be pretty hard as well. The field size increases each year, so the children playing need...

Connor is not a fan of food. He does not seek it out and he rarely tries new things unless told to do so. Helen, on the other hand, is more ...

I've lost track of how many years we've hosted an Oktoberfest party. There was one year that got skipped due to Connor's terrib...

Tonight I spent the past 3 hours editing a photobook of our family trip to London and Paris a year and a half ago. Per usual, I bought a dis...

Our house has been super lucky when it comes to illness these last several years. I don't think either child had a sick visit to the ped...

In 2007, another woman in my mom's group issued a challenge to herself, myself, and our friend Vickie to try and join National Blog Post...

School photos are always terrible. I purchase them each year out of some strange sense of obligation, and then when they arrive at my house,...

Parenting Helen and Connor can be a study in contrasts. Where one sees opportunity, the other finds obstacles. One skips, the other walks wi...

It was a tense few days while the Royals made short work of the Orioles. Connor was visibly upset the first day, less so the second, and by ...

Last year, the gifted resource teacher at Connor's school asked me how things were going. I told her what I thought - without sparing he...