9 Nov, 2018
I think my feelings of desperation and isolation coincide with the start of winter and daylight savings time. Darkness, bleh. I am a warm, sunny weather person. I like it hot and bright! My older kids are whining and fighting like animals today. The babies are whining and grabbing me, pinching my nipples, head butting my face without warning, and cry every time I put them down with toys. My sinuses hurt and I’m drowning in my own disgusting drainage. I...
29 Jan, 2014
I am really panicking about selling our house. I just don’t know how it will work. Packing up all our stuff and painting and making a few small repairs isn’t the issue since we always contact Hills Moving when we move; the problem is the animals. We both enjoy our animals and have no problem caring for them. I like the animal chores, they don’t feel like chores. But they do come with pet hair, a litter box, dog poop in...
Adoption & Hosting / Homeschooling / Link Love / Rants
13 Jun, 2018
You know how sometimes you read blog posts and alternative news articles about families who have had their children taken by CPS and your first thought is, well there must more be facts we don’t know…? Surely there must be something we’re not being told. CPS doesn’t take children from healthy families, right? I mean I’m a foster parent. I am involved with caseworkers, CPS has regular access to my home and family, and I have been to court with my...
5 Jun, 2018
You know, I never intended to be internet famous. But, here we are again. My blog post about Henry accidentally getting locked in the hot car is resurfacing just in time for Hot Car Death Season. (That should not be a thing…) Today it appeared on Love What Matters and on Scary Mommy! You may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging much since that post originally went viral. After years of sharing my life with the interwebz I hit some...
14 Feb, 2018
I haven’t had time to write here very much recently. Since my blog post about my son accidentally getting locked in the car went viral I’ve had mixed feelings about sharing so many intimate details of my life with the internet at large. I’ve had my fifteen minutes of internet fame and it was…um…interesting? Hah. Life since my twins were born has been a bit chaotic. The twins cry ALL the time unless they’re nursing. Whew! You’d think fate could cut...
13 Dec, 2017
Sometimes in life you are blessed with things you don’t ask for and never thought you would want. I distinctly remember telling my mother that discovering I was pregnant with twins would be one of my worst nightmares. Two babies at once, no freaking way I would want that to happen! And of course about a week after that I discovered I was pregnant with twins. I spent weeks, yes weeks, crying in horror. Not because I didn’t already love both...
15 Aug, 2017
It’s 3 a.m. and I am awake googling the words, “How to remove cat urine odor from a bounce house.” Based on the results, or lack there of, I am fairly certain I may be one of the sole unlucky humans to ever google this phrase. In case you’re wondering, you can power wash a bouncy house. I know, because I did it using soap designed to clean mildew off of siding. In case you are also wondering, while pressure washing...
31 Jul, 2017
Does your toddler or preschooler know how to get out of a car when the doors are shut? Why is this not something we talk about? Why isn’t it a thing we teach our kids, like we do with fire drills. Tonight I realized my son, who will be four in just a few days, couldn’t open the car doors from the inside by himself. He’s strong, he’s big for his age, and he’s smart. But the door handle didn’t open...
17 May, 2017
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted here! We’ve had an interesting half a year, that’s for sure. We became foster parents, and had three children placed in our home. Two brothers (18 months and 5 years), and one little girl who was 2.5. We’ve learned the hard way that the foster care system is extremely broken, unfair, and difficult to deal with. We had false accusations, lying case workers, and much unnecessary drama while we watched our foster children...
13 Apr, 2017
We went to Kentucky to visit my parents for spring break! This is a tank at the park near their house. Rosie and my sister Hannah… They are so clones of each other! I tried to take nice pictures of the kids in a pretty field, but the only time we had to go to the field was when it was windy with huge clouds alternating blinding sun. I’ll have to dress them up and do pictures in Ohio later, when...
Daily Life / Photography / Vlogging
28 Feb, 2017
The kids with their cousin Lucy! The girls went to their cousin Lauren’s birthday party in Prestonsburg the next day with the in-laws. I think the girls had a blast at the party. These are pictures my FIL took there. While they were gone we visited with Tyler’s granny. It felt good to be back in Kentucky where everything is familiar. People smile at you, hold doors open, make friendly small talk, and their accents are soft on your ears. Columbus...
Adoption & Hosting / Daily Life / Suburbia
28 Sep, 2016
Today was our fire inspection. Yesterday the fire inspector called me and left a voicemail. My first, immediate thought upon playing the voicemail was that I had just missed a call from Captain Holt. Captain Holt is from the TV show Brooklyn 99. Random YouTube Video of Captain Holt: I was kind of nervous/excited to see what this guy was actually like in person today. I was also extremely nervous we weren’t going to do something right and then fail the...
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