A family wellness update

It’s been a rough week!

Jude’s symptoms have been consistent with the H1N1 virus.  He’s still running a fever, but last night he was doing pretty well.  I was warned, however, by our pediatrician’s nurse that the fever and symptoms tend to go away for awhile only to return (sometimes worse), so we’re not out [...]

H1N1?

Ah, great.

Yesterday Jude had a hacking dry cough (like I’ve had since Sunday) but was otherwise normal all day.

Josh thought he was a little warm last night around supper time.  I didn’t think he was warm enough to take his temperature.

Jude started coughing more after he went to bed.  I went to [...]

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Fair weather fans

I am totally an Iowa Hawkeye Football fair weather fan and I don’t mind admitting it.  We don’t watch many sporting events at our house.  I’m all about rooting for any and all Iowa teams (Iowa, ISU, UNI) in any sport and have never had any strong allegiances to any particular school.  That said, Josh [...]

She’s here!She’s here!

I feel like she should have a name.  Any suggestions?

My new 90th anniversary edition Kitchen Aid mixer arrived last Thursday afternoon.  I won this prize on The Pioneer Woman Cooks! site (backstory here).  The contest was sponsored by CHEFS Catalog.  I noticed that my winning post has since been taken down, [...]

My three sons

It had been a long while since I’d taken a video of the boys; and I’d never taken video of little Jace.  So last Saturday morning before the wet hair incident happened, I got out my Flip to shoot Jace who at the time was cooing and smiling like crazy (not so much once I [...]

What is normal anyway?What is normal anyway?

If you don’t want to be grossed out this lovely Monday morn, you might not want to read this story.

Saturday morning the kids and I were hanging out around the house while Josh was working.  We’d been having a great morning, Jude and Jett were getting along so well playing Alien Spaceship Landing (spaceships [...]

The Great PumpkinThe Great Pumpkin

Jude’s preschool class went on a field trip yesterday to a pumpkin patch.

The kids could pick out any pumpkin they wanted.  This is what Jude picked out:

Nice, huh?

I wanted to get Jace in there for scale.  Too bad I didn’t get him at his best.  It’s [...]

Introducing ‘The Naughty Files’

Last week was a tough one.  The older kids were getting into lots of trouble.  I started thinking of the times I’ve written about them and the naughty things they’ve done.  When I looked back through the entries of this blog which go back to January of 2008, I was actually surprised there were so [...]

This and thatThis and that

The Rockband Extraordinaire.

We had friends over (which doesn’t happen very often) Friday night.  We played Beatles Rockband.   What else would we do?  Front row, L to R: Travis (Mandatory Reporter), Melissa, Me, Josh.  Back row, L to the R: Gus, Emily (friend, not sister), The Tyler Forret.  Yes, [...]