This, That, and the Mother Thing

Conor starts kindergarten on Tuesday. We thought he was starting last Wednesday with the rest of the Charlotte Mecklenburg system. We thou...

Now that's a blog title! Um, so, uh, yeah! It's been a busy week. First, viral pneumonia is not nearly as bad as bacterial pneumo...

Do you want to know what life with twins is like? Do you want to know why Mothers of Multiples (MOMS) say it's much harder than you can...

{Start blog} {Insert paragraph bemoaning lack of blogging activity} {Insert paragraph subtly rescinding apology because current state of lif...

Yes, yes, still around. Not leaving. Hopefully, when things settle down in August as far as kindergarten and daycare, I'll have a litt...

We've been praying for an easy year this year. Apparently, God said HA ! Well, it's not that bad, but it's certainly not ...

This is photo tableau of why I do not have time to blog. They keep us on our toes from morning to night. If they just weren't so darn ...

Sometimes, I have to work really hard to come up with the prose to make things sound interesting around here. And sometimes, it sort of wri...

So there's busy. And there's working mother of 10 month old twins and a 5 year old and a working husband. Hello! I'm not leav...

Yes, we're still alive over here in the Mother Thing household. But just barely. I have a ton of things I want to blog about, some fac...

I'm still here and I have about a zillion blog updates to write. I'm just so tired after working and getting the babies to bed that...

The twins have grown out of that blank infant stage and have started to become distinct babies. They still really dig each other, holding h...

I just realized what Michele was talking about a few posts ago. The Artisan Bread can become doughy in the middle---unless you cook the ho...

I've had some wine with the dinner party we had tonight. Can I still blog? We'll see. Anyhoo, good and bad news with Conor's op...

Every time I blog about something here, the next day the opposite thing happens. So imagine what last night's sleep was? W.O.N.D.E.R.F....

NOTE: I'm posting this just to complain, not to get assvice. It's just one of those things one wants to point out that is differen...

Both babies are down and I'm getting a few things checked off my list. And oddly, one of the things to check off my list of things to d...

Michele from In Between the Parentheses , who is a real bread baker, asked about our bread. We are still following the Artisan Bread in Fiv...

I have read that one is supposed to do this, but I've never been able to stick to it until recently: weekly dinner menus. I am finding ...

The main issues around here seem to be getting enough food to everyone and making sure that everyone gets enough sleep. Dinner times are ab...