i'm going to make it (after all)

We got a great deal on a membership to Costco from LivingSocial . Today, we took the kids there to redeem our voucher and do a little browsi...

Oliver started preschool this week! He goes as part of the Des Moines' schools "universal preschool" program which pays for a...

Last night, after bed time, Jo wandered into Oliver's room and emerged crying and screaming. It was hard to get any information out of ...

Raccoon River park & beach in West Des Moines is about a 10 minute drive from our house, and I've gone with the kids a few times ...

I think everyone in our family is entering into a new stage of life. It's not even September, but 2014 has been such a big time of chang...

Oliver wasn't very interested in coloring until very recently. Suddenly, he's happy to sit and draw and color. It amazes me that ...

I just love good deals. I get a lot of our kids' clothes at consignment shops and even church sales, but I can't pass up a hot deal ...

We're home from our road trip to Indiana. Oliver has been asking to go to the beach, and I knew of a great one that we always went to a...

OK, it was a seedling. I'm still kind of sorry (but kind of not). To the city of Des Moines, I'm sorry! Sort of.  We decided t...