It is no secret that we don't have lots of money. I am not telling you this in a woe-is-me kinda way. Our money situation is largely due to the choices we have made. Getting married at 23, buying our house at 24, having our first kid at 25, taking a year off to stay home with Quinn, having a second kid and forfeiting my income so I could stay home with our children...yup, those are all choices. Choices we stand by. If money and career were number one, we probably would have had our kids later in ...
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Boys Build Forts (or have their moms do it for them)
Boys will be boys. Really, they will. We didn't even use the word gun for the first three years of Quinn's life and he called it a "blaster thing". He didn't have one so he turned Mr. Potato Head's fire extinguisher into one. There is no way around it. Quinn is all boy and all energy. Wisconsin winters can be tough when there is lots of energy and nowhere for it to go. We all know how much Quinn loves building with my pillows (which you can read about here, here and here). He also loves ...