A Visit From my Mom

My mom came down to Tennessee to help while Zach recovered from his surgery.  She arrived on Friday night and was able to stay with the kids while I picked up Zach from the hospital and then got his perscriptions.  Zach was miserable all week and barely emerged from our room.  He ate almost [...]

Moving: Day 9 the drive to Knoxville

DAY 9:  On Wednesday we set off for Knoxville. It was a long crowded ride in my mother’s  Tribeca, but the kids behaved well and the trip was uneventful.  We stopped for lunch at Wendy’s and Nicole enjoyed dancing to the music and making faces with my mother.  She was in such a funny [...]

Moving Days 7-8: Ohio (part 2 of 2)

DAY 7:  We spent much of day 7 exploring my parent’s property.  We kicked off our adventures with the traditional forklift rides.  Isaac and Charlotte took turns riding the forklift with their grandfather.  He showed them how to lift a pallet up and down and even gave them a ride on the pallet and loaded [...]

I need more mom time!

I am grateful that I got to see my mom last weekend, even if it was a very short visit. She is seriously one of my very favorite people and no matter how much time I get with her, I always want more.
She flew in on Saturday and spent Monday night at Krista’s before [...]

Motivators

Krista and I decided we wanted to send my mom a package to make working in my dad’s office less depressing so we decided to make her those motivational posters with the word and then quote, only we thought we’d select pictures of our kids.  We had some difficulty figuring out a good way to [...]