The kids are down for the night and now I have the usual 3-4 hours where no one is clawing my leg, talking to me constantly, or demanding my attention. I don’t know what I’ve been doing the past week or so, but it’s all a complete whirlwind. And I’m beat. I’m [...]
I was getting some milk and an apple for Luke this afternoon when I had a revelation: maybe I’m not doing a completely horrible job in raising my kids! Maybe I’m doing pretty well. I mean there was that time a few weeks back when I was sharing my Sprite with Luke before lunch and [...]
I think Olivia had a good first birthday, not that she’ll remember it, of course. But she will see the pictures and know how beautiful she was and how much she was loved and how people were glad to spend part of their day celebrating the day she came into the world.
As I thought [...]
It’s after midnight. The decorations are up (funny how it takes longer to put up a simple decorations!). The cake looks awesome. And all we have left is to have the party with the family. Little Olivia’s first birthday has already started. I can hardly believe it. Pictures will [...]
After The Business of Being Born ended with a haunting yet empowering Jane Siberry song, I watched this slideshow of beautiful baby Audrey who I’ve mentioned before — who died 2.5 hours after being born. And I just wept, and I don’t know why. I mean, it is heart-breaking to look at these [...]
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Today is my birthday. I’m 29 today. The party started yesterday when I decided to buy a cake to have with the kids and since it was all newly-iced with “Happy Birthday to the best mom around”, I figured we may as well eat [...]
I guess I’ve posted on this before, but I ran into my old crayon box again today while cleaning the kids’ craft room. It’s a red box of crayons I got from my mom’s store when I was a kid. Seeing it makes me completely nostalgic, especially about one thing: on the back [...]
Marc doing a front roll in the basement last night while he and the kids were doing “gymnastics”.
Man, I’m sorry I missed that!
Sitting here doing some office estate work, I just thought of a brilliant slogan.
If Marc and I ever open our own funeral home, this is how we will advertise:
“Vandersluys Memorial: We Put The Fun in Funeral”