By Hannah|2014-12-17T13:38:18+00:00December 17th, 2014|Uncategorized|6 Comments
This boy is sick this week. Again. It seems that these pesky fevers are no respecters of the holiday. As if I don’t have a million things I need to do and then a bazillion things on top of those things that I’d like to be doing. (Like baking pumpkin bread. I love you, sweet Pumpkin Bread. Am I ever going to get to enjoy your homemade deliciousness??) At least [...]
By Hannah|2014-12-10T08:22:03+00:00December 10th, 2014|Uncategorized|5 Comments
Back before I had kiddos, I worked an office job with several of you lovely readers. I enjoyed the position, but it had an unfortunate side effect: my dreams. Not my dreams for the future dreams. Rather, my dreams. At night. I stood at a copy machine and I copied papers. For hours. In my dreams. Night after night, I dreamed the same boring copier dream. I felt betrayed by [...]
By Hannah|2014-12-03T09:15:29+00:00December 3rd, 2014|Uncategorized|36 Comments
I didn’t blog last week, in case you didn’t notice. I wish I could say it was because we were just so darn busy with, you know, the normal stuff—forming cheese balls in the shape of fat little turkeys, feeding the hungry at a local shelter, chopping down our own Christmas tree whilst wearing pricey L.L. Bean snow boots and stylish outerwear—but we weren’t. Instead, I got the call to [...]
By Hannah|2014-11-19T12:34:26+00:00November 19th, 2014|Uncategorized|10 Comments
A few days ago, Josh and I secured a couple of fabulous babysitters (‘cause our kids take 2), got all gussied up and went to a fancy fundraiser banquet for a local crisis pregnancy center. I had registered us to attend months back, but I didn’t remember receiving any confirmation. So a few days before the banquet, I sent a quick e-mail to the organization’s executive director, who I had [...]
By Hannah|2014-11-12T08:31:01+00:00November 12th, 2014|Uncategorized|53 Comments
I turned 32 this weekend. There are no pictures to show it. All five of us around here have our birthdays within about a month of each other. I bring up the rear, so by the time mine rolls around everyone is tired of the camera. Hattie and I share a birthday, actually. She woke me at exactly 11:55 p.m. the night before my 28th year began to announce that [...]
By Hannah|2014-11-05T13:30:16+00:00November 5th, 2014|Uncategorized|13 Comments
I had one of my favorite bedtime conversations to date with this gal this week. Hattie: “Mommy, I’m scared of the dark.” Me: “You don’t need to be scared, Sweetie. God says he has his angels all around us to protect us.” Hattie: “But why can’t I see them?” Me: “I don’t know. That’s the way God decided that it would be.” (I could use help with answering this question [...]
By Hannah|2014-10-29T13:31:05+00:00October 29th, 2014|Uncategorized|12 Comments
Christian is running. Everywhere he goes, he runs (and pushes and bites.) He’s a serious little combination of stout legs, strong torso and an accidental (but convincing) Three Stooges haircut (compliments of his mother.) He is two this week. Beware. Hattie loves books, asking questions and crying. A lot. She is emotional, a fantastic hand-holder and makes us laugh on purpose. A lot. She has thankfully recovered from that horrible [...]
By Hannah|2014-10-16T08:18:38+00:00October 16th, 2014|Uncategorized|21 Comments
I was supposed to be writing my blog last night. It was going to be moving and articulate. You were probably going to be in tears. I had set aside time for it, even planned for Josh and the kids to be out of the house so I could whip it out without all their helpful interruptions. Instead, Josh and I had a good solid fight about the mayonnaise and [...]
By Hannah|2014-10-08T08:38:12+00:00October 8th, 2014|Uncategorized|10 Comments
My Darlings, You are doomed. According to the billboard anyway. I spotted it while your daddy and I were on our way to hear this little one’s heartbeat (or heartbeep, as you kids call it) for the first time: Coming soon- to a Hall House near you! The billboard pictured an adorable little girl poised to do a summersault on a tumbling mat. She looked happy, but the [...]
By Hannah|2014-10-01T13:06:51+00:00October 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|12 Comments
Somewhere around the hideous age of 13, I was on the 7th grade basketball team. My skills at basketball were almost as proficient as my skills at styling my own hair—which I accomplished with a sweet bang swoop and a lot of hair gel—so you can imagine how often I handled the ball. The Swoop. But my friends played, and that was enough for me to stick out [...]
