Dear Million, on your fourth birthday…I absolutely love you.You are my treasure, my joy.I delight in you.I will pursue your heart, recklessly. I will be your biggest cheerleader. This morning, when you were memorizing the locations of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, you asked me “Mama, can I memorize …
Tomorrow is Million’s whale-themed birthday party, and I feel…pretty unprepared, but I’ve got the whole day to work on things. I allowed Million and Creedence to help me with the decorations this year. Really had to abandon any notions of things looking perfect with this one. This whale has …
So there’s that time that Craigslist was offering a free school coat and hat cubby shelf. And I loaded it into the van by myself without telling Michael. I called him looking for the ratchet straps and promised him they were not for the boys. Turned out I had loaded …
Let me preface this post by saying that these will not be the most flattering “before” pictures you’ve ever seen. That’s why they’re called “before photos.” Michael (and Million) worked on building one of our raised beds. Michael was generously given some leftover deck lumber by a coworker, and he …