• In Celebration of Sarah

    Ms. Crazy Preschooler is officially 5! We had toast in the bathtub for breakfast. She played with Kidpix on the computer. Her choice for lunch was baked string pasta, and after nap (while I ran around like CRAZY trying to make the house presentable) her friend Natalie and Natalie’s sister…

  • I Tried.

    I just not domesticated. I’m bad at decorating. Everything. Especially cakes, it turns out. And I knew this before I started. I have always said that I will not make decorated cakes for my kids. My mom is terrific at decorating cakes, and I have had absolutely no desire to…

  • Sledding

    Ever since I was a little girl, one of my favorite things about winter has been sledding. Nearly every Christmas vacation that I can remember has included sledding. When I was small, we slid down the hill in the heifer corral behind our trailer house and down the monster snowpiles…

  • Introducing Ms. Crazy Preschooler’s Blog

    For Christmas Dr. Peds and I found a used 1.3 pixel digital camera on ebay for Ms. Crazy Preschooler. After Hannah was born and we gave her a disposable camera to take pictures of her new baby sister, it became apparent that Ms. CP was very, very into documenting EVERYTHING…

  • Let’s Talk about Carols

    I’m somewhat of a scrooge when it comes to Christmas carols. I like Christmas carols, I really do. I especially like them when other people are singing and playing them. And I don’t MIND playing them and singing them myself, it’s just that I don’t often want to because I…

  • The Grand Stable Jesus Deserved

    After lunch I went upstairs and couldn’t help running into what Ms. Crazy Preschooler had been working on all morning, a deluxe, luxury stable for Baby Jesus, complete with a full kitchen, shower, couch and recliner set, not to mention a lovely queen sized bed for Mary and Joseph to…

  • Quote of the Day

    This morning Ms. Crazy Preschooler yells in a most distraught voice from the attic: “Come and Get Noah! He’s going to SWALLOW Baby Jesus!” (She had been playing with her little nativity set and was quite concerned that Baby Jesus might be her brother’s midmorning snack.)

  • The Weather

    These are the start of icicles out my living room picture window. It has been raining all day and the minute the rain hits the ground it freezes. It’s very slippery out, obviously. I hate, hate HATE these awnings on my house. While they do keep things very cool in…

  • General Craziness on the Floor

    I plopped The Banana on the floor yesterday and she was joined by the rambunctious ranks of the household, who don’t exactly like their own picture taken but cant’ STAND for me to take pictures of The Banana without them. These aren’t technically good pictures at all, but I really…