Category: parenting

  • Exhausting week

    I had a prenatal growth ultrasound the other day and my 30-week baby is measuring in at 35 weeks, and they estimate he is already five lbs.  Good times, right?  I know that ultrasounds can be fairly inaccurate but he feels huge already and with Ezra being over 11 lbs at birth, it would not…

  • Handmade doings around the house

    We’ve been eating out a lot lately.  A LOT.  So I’m trying to be better about making things around the house.  Yesterday I decided to make taco soup using our canned ground beef and canned beef stock I had made.  This was my first experience with canned ground beef.  Some folks don’t like canned ground…

  • This cold can suck it

    I freaking hate colds, really I do.  Not that anyone really likes them, right?  But I’m especially hating colds right now.  I came home from work last Thursday and overnight just started feeling really crappy.  I called out on Friday, and I haven’t been back to work since.  I do have to go in again…

  • Creeping up on Thanksgiving

    I would say Halloween was a rousing success this year.  Ezra went dressed as a pirate.  First we did a Trunk-or-Treat activity at Velvet’s ward on Thursday and there were so many people there! Dad and Dani came down that weekend, so they were there to enjoy the festivities.  The next day we brought the…

  • Caramel baby

    I told my coworkers that this baby is going to be so sweet because it’ll be half caramel. You are what you eat, right? The other day I lost my cool with Ezra because he was driving me nuts and I said, “Why are you being such a bad boy today?” and he kind of…