My brother, Mike, is getting married in October and his fiancee, Kathryn, had her family shower in Columbus, Ohio last Sunday. During the shower, we were asked to give her marriage advice. She got a lot of really good advice about the marriage, but none about the wedding. So that’s what I’d like to do [...]

My seven year old sat down in front of my computer because he wanted to see himself on the screen using the built in webcam. I turned it on and watched as he made funny faces at himself. Soon curiosity got the best of the other two and they came over to see what Little [...]

Tonight I was going through a few pictures of the kids on my computer when I stumbled upon these three videos. The first one is of Littlest One when he was about five or six months old and the second is of my husband opening up a very special birthday present. Both are from two [...]

Ready to party on the potty, that is. I have come to the conclusion that Little Miss Throwsafit has been playing me. For several months now I have been making excuses in my head that the reason why she has not been as successful with potty training when it comes to peeing has to do [...]

Sheesh, I can’t believe this much time has passed since I’ve updated this blog. Bad blog mommy. I’ll be honest, though. There have been many days when I’d say to myself, “I really need to post something at Up North Mommy,” but then I’d get distracted with something and then, swoosh, the idea went right [...]

We were so happy when Sammy recovered from her infection. She was again happy and active. Well, as active as an almost 14 year old Golden Retriever can be. But it didn’t last for long. On Tuesday afternoon, probably around 5 pm, when Sammy came walking into the kitchen after a snooze in the computer [...]

The kids and I had a lot of fun this past weekend.  Little Man had the day off of school this past Friday because it was records day for the teachers. My friend Michele’s older son, J, also had the day off of school, so she and her two boys came over and spent the [...]

On July 4th, Steve and I will be married for 12 years. It’s been a fun and wacky ride all this time but we’ve had one constant through it all, and that is our Golden Retriever, Sammy. Sammy, short for Samantha, was about 16 months old when Steve and I had our first date. The [...]

I was talking to a friend yesterday and I told her that it feels like our seasons have been slowly shifting back one month and no longer match up with the calendar. Winter now seems to be January through early April. Spring is starts to show itself from mid-April through June. Summer doesn’t appear until [...]

Little Man and Little Miss Throwsafit were both home from school for President’s Day. We all celebrated by sleeping in and having a little party: It was cacophonous but great fun.