Author: Tami

For your viewing pleasure: My greatest treasures. In their diapers, and mismatched pajamas, and crazy hair — ignoring Dad as he repeatedly asks them to calm down and get ready for bed. (Sorry for the vertical video). My heart is so full today. Being a mom of a bunch of little kids is really fun…

I can’t let this blog die! Even if Google Reader dies. And even if it’s been 3 months since my last post. Something is better than nothing, right? It makes me sad to think of these precious (aka exhausting) years while our kids are still little slipping by unnoticed and undocumented except for the random…

Where all you want to do is curl up and drink hot chocolate and watch Christmas movies with the fam — but you have to finish decorating the house first! And you have to go Christmas shopping, and you have to wrap, and you have to keep doing that one tradition, and you have to…

Let’s review the last three months or so… I completely failed at blogging. On the rare occasion that I had any spare time I was too exhausted to do anything other than veg out in front of ridiculous reality TV and stuff my face with popcorn and diet Coke. And then promptly fall asleep during…

Girls trips are quite possibly the best. invention. ever. This year was especially fun and especially relaxing. Or maybe I just needed it especially bad. Ha. Props to my wonderful hubby who always shoves me out the door and tells me to have fun. He knows I need a break once in a while, and…

It scares me that I have a fourth grader. I totally remember fourth grade. The friend drama. The school projects. The lunch line. My teacher… It wasn’t my favorite. But I hope Jake makes some happy memories this year. He LOVED everything about third grade and wanted to stay there forever (funny, so did I).…

And there are a LOT of candles on that cake! Thirty-one to be exact. It took me three tries to blow them all out. 🙂 Thirty-one years and this is shaping up to be one of the best birthdays I have ever had. A perfect little party the night before thrown by my closest and…

Swimming! So much that Lindsay’s hair turned green for the last month of summer. We were out there almost every day. Everyone learned to dive and do tricks. Love having a pool, and love having a diving board! Twinners. You’re not cool unless you wear the same outfit as someone else. And then take a…

I remember back when I was your typical bratty teenager, seeing moms who had their hair pulled up in a messy bun, with no make-up, wearing sweats and an overwhelmed look on their face – usually pushing a stroller or grocery cart with baby, trying to multi-task, and dragging a whiny toddler behind them. I…

To all three of my devoted readers – I feel so horrible that it has been SO long since my last post. I’ve kept this blog up religiously for the last five years or so, with updates about every two weeks. It has been the only decent journal I have ever kept in my life.…

I’ve decided four kids is a lot. Two to three seemed average. Four crossed over into the “lot” category. Where I can tell sometimes people look at me like, “get your tubes tied lady.” Such as today when on the way out of the gym Lindsay had a complete screaming crying melt down (mainly because…

Only my closest friends will understand how truly momentous this is (cue 2001 Space Odyssey music here): Yes everyone. Finally, I have left the dark ages… and retired my purple flip phone. It had no internet, no keyboard, no games, no GPS, no apps, no nothing. It was just a phone. And I received much…