motherhood

Clean Plate Club

by beth February 6, 2012

Or maybe clean bowl club? Either way the baby is now offi­cially mov­ing into solids.  She is also now mov­ing for­ward when she crawls. Not back­ward, not side to side, not scoot­ing around but crawl­ing. Full on crawl­ing. Hold me now. {And yes I just posted an update that is essen­tially what I ate for breakfast […]

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The Bark Side

by beth February 4, 2012

I am sure by now every­one has seen this com­mer­cial from Volk­swa­gen. In fact, I believe they are the world’s smartest car com­pany for know­ing how to tap into our col­lec­tive child­hood mem­o­ries with Star Wars meets cute kids and now Star Wars meets cute dogs. How­ever, I am post­ing this in case you are […]

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Outside the DIA

by beth February 4, 2012

This week we took the kids to the Detroit Insti­tute of Arts Museum.  As we walked out­side the DIA I stopped to take some pic­tures. As I was snap­ping away a woman walk­ing by did a dou­ble take, looked at all the kids, then at Mike & I and asked “Are THEY all yours?” To […]

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One of THOSE Days

by beth January 31, 2012

One Sat­ur­day late after­noon… Ring Ring “Beth your phone is ring­ing.” “Oh, is that mine.” For a sec­ond I thought about not going to see who was call­ing and let­ting it go to voice mail. It had been a hard day and I already felt worn out. But instead I reached for my phone and saw […]

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