Category: Our Life

After Adrianna’s afternoon nap, we used the BRAT diet (Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast) and fed her some toast and bananas and she was able to keep them, along with drinks of water, down. She...

Adrianna had a restless night where she woke up crying several times. This morning, she didn’t eat much breakfast, which is very unusual for her as she is not a picky eater and she...

With Spring comes many of the annoying pests that I so detest. Ick. I am not scared of bugs, but I absolutely cannot stand spiders or wasps. They both scare me. I don’t mind...

This is the reaction that I get from Adrianna when we play hide and seek. She is just coming around the corner and I surprised her with an enthusiastic “Boo!” After the game of...

Today was a busy and productive day. The kind of day that makes me feel satisfied with all I accomplished. Vacuuming, mopping, dishes, cooking, laundry, general cleaning, dusting, weeding, and rose trimming. Whew. That...

When my three siblings and I were growing up, we used to enjoy playing a game that was known in our house as “Mommy Monster.” It basically consisted of my mother hiding somewhere in...

Now that we have a child who likes to make noise when we go out to eat, we find ourselves eating at Cici’s Pizza more and more. Cici’s is a pizza buffet place that...

Well, we finally got our first family pictures taken. Getting Adrianna to smile proved to be a bit of a challenge since it was close to her naptime, but we managed to get a...

I have mentioned before how much Adrianna loves her teddy bears. Winnie the Pooh holds a special coveted place in her crib every night. He is a great companion. He can play music if...

Adrianna LOVES shoes. Especially her shoes or mine. She already is turning into a little girly-girl. I wonder if she will be the type of woman who has to have lots of pairs of...

Keeping my house clean / picked up while taking care of a young child is difficult to say the least. I have never been a very tidy person to begin with. I am not...

The title says it all. Adrianna has been having these really gross and strange bowel movements for the past couple of weeks. They are extremely runny, yellow, and smelly. It also seems to leak...

I had a really rough day yesterday. I usually refrain from talking about work too much (except to say good, generic things) because, well, I don’t want to be one of those people who...