Bea has been getting around and exploring her surroundings more and more everyday. She likes to pull all her toys and books off the shelves. The other day when she was playing in our bedroom she discovered that the bathroom was nearby and when she saw the tub (where she gets her baths) she got…

Do you know Doug and Joan Chapman? Do you know they sing Happy Birthday over the phone? I bet you didn’t know this detail, I bet you never would have guessed. This year I was wondering if I would get the call – I thought they might have provided this service to daughters-in-law whos husbands…

Another lesson of motherhood I’m becoming intimate with… There is nothing more yucky than a runny nose on a kid. It’s not her fault, poor babe, that she can’t wipe her own nose. She wakes up with her hair plastered to her forhead with snot. And I have snot smeared on the shoulder of my…