My mother in law took photos on Christmas Eve and just gave me this one last week. When I looked at it I laughed out loud. Little Miss Throwsafit’s cousin Maddie is posing in a very elegant and lady-like manner and there’s LMT with her big personality for all to see. The acorn doesn’t fall [...]

It fights fat: Coffee contains caffeine, which helps speed up your heart rate and thus helps you burn more calories.

Little Miss Throwsafit loves to play with her dolls and My Little Ponies but she also has a real interest in dinosaurs, which I’m sure she picked up from her big brother.  When she plays with the toy dinosaurs, though, she loves to make the big ones eat the littler ones, like this (click to [...]

Earlier this morning, Littlest One opened the pantry door looking for a snack. After perusing the pantry’s contents, he made his choice and showed it to me. This is what he wanted: I wasn’t crazy about him having so much processed sugar so I instead offered him these: So, which one did he pick? He [...]

When I put Little Miss Throwsafit to bed tonight, we read the book “If You Give a Moose a Muffin.” It’s one of our favorites around here. But it got me thinking about the cute email I got a few years ago called If You Give a Mom a Muffin. If you’ve never read it [...]

When you have a child with physical and speech disabilities, some of the most basic milestones require more time and diligence on both the parents’ and the child’s parts. Potty training is one of those milestones.  Because we have knowledge of LMT’s limitations we have not put too much pressure on her to accomplish potty [...]

It’s been snowing this morning and I was so inspired by its beauty I went outside to take a few photos. We have some tall grass that lines the outside of our deck and the snow that coated it looks so pretty (click images to enlarge): Isn’t that lovely? On this photo below you can [...]

Here’s Little Miss Throwsafit playing a little ditty on her harmonica. And pay close attention to the little bow at the end. It’s just too adorable.

George Orwell wrote that very powerful and truthful statement, which was personified in my nephew Ryan, who yesterday took the military oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. My sister-in-law took some photos and I highly recommend you head on over and read her post. But I warn you. It has a powerful [...]