Wine Please

Colleen | May 25, 2009

Golly…where do I start? We had an incredibly busy weekend!
On Friday, I worked from home so that I could bring Cooper to a checkup for his ears. After the doctor cleaned out what looked like half a slice of pizza out of Coop’s ears, we collected our stickers and headed home for a [...]

Category: Adventures | 2 Comments »
Tags: bloggy meet-up, holidays, Kids, suburban mom

Colleen | May 19, 2009

Me: Hey Gavin, it’s your birthday soon. What kind of birthday do you want?
Gavin: I want a Batman birthday!
Me: Okay. So you don’t want a Wolverine cake anymore?
Gavin: Um…how ’bout you put Batman next to Wolverine and that will be my cake?
Me: Well, you can’t really do that, [...]

Category: Kids | 4 Comments »
Tags: Gavin, milestones, suburban mom

Colleen | May 11, 2009

I hope all of you moms out there had an absolutely smashing mother’s day! I know mine this year was quite a step-up from years past because:

it didn’t rain. In fact, it was the first time in the past ten days or so that it didn’t rain even the tiniest littlest drop.
it didn’t [...]

Category: General | 3 Comments »
Tags: Justin, Kids, memories, ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman, suburban mom

Colleen | May 11, 2009

I was fully expecting Justin to kind of fill this in since this part of the trip was more him than me. Or at least he had a lot more to talk about than me. But he hasn’t so I will at least put a little something before BlogHer starts pulling my ads [...]

Category: Adventures | 1 Comment »
Tags: Justin, Kids, travel

Colleen | May 2, 2009

Last week Thursday we packed up the car and the kids and headed off to Chicago. After about six hours we stopped off at a hotel…for free, thanks to Justin’s hotel points from all his traveling. We ate dinner and went swimming, then I tried to bathe the kids.
I say “tried” because when [...]

Category: Adventures, Kids | 3 Comments »
Tags: family, travel, wine!