This January we took our family to San Diego. I've shared how the trip was a Christmas present and a few of our experiences: Sea World, the beach and taking 3 kids 6 and under on an airplane! When we were at Sea World, Eleanor wanted to get a snow globe. I quickly noticed a sign that said they were not allowed as carry-ons. It was at this point that we realized we needed a plan. We decided that the kids would each get to pick a pin. Relatively inexpensive and super easy to fit in our ...
Family Life
What to Expect
I'm officially doing this a fourth time. I know, he doesn't look to happy about it. He is though! Sure, he has no idea what is going on, but he happily points at my stomach and says baby. He mostly thought it was fun to run from me and since he knew I wanted a picture of his shirt... Eleanor wants to know how Hudson can be a big brother if he still poops in a diaper. I'm hoping that this summer we will be able to potty train Hudson and that wont be the case. We already ...
Out of Order, Crazy Real Life
This post is sponsored by Bona, but the mess and opinions are all my own. Heading into this last weekend, I had two goals: attack the mountains of laundry and clean my floors using my new Bona Hardwood Floor Mop. The laundry in and of itself was probably more then a weekend job. I always promise myself that I will not let it pile up and then I let it pile up. Because honestly, doing it all is just so freaking hard. Our laundry system is pathetic. It piles up in our room, because the ...
Flying With Children
Santa brought the kids plane tickets. You can read more about that here. Quinn has been begging for plane tickets for as long as I can remember. In fact, I'm a little unsure if it was that he wanted to travel to far away places or he really wanted to fly. We were leaving bright and early in the morning. Since we were flying out of Chicago, we had to allow an hour and a half drive time. Quinn came down a million times wondering if it was time to go yet. I'm not entirely sure ...
Parenting and Big Decisions
I thought we could take a break from vacation posts (here and here). I've put off writing this post, because often times if feels that sharing your own experience or thoughts is a judgement against those who feel differently and do differently. That is not what this is. This isn't judgement. This isn't my way is better. If you go out to eat and get burgers, everyone else who went out to eat and didn't get burgers didn't make a wrong choice--they made the choice that was right for them! We all ...