Ahhh, fall.  It is definitely my favorite season of the year, and I wish it would stay this way all year long.  I would not miss swimming, I would not miss shoveling snow, and although I might miss them a little, I could learn to live without spring flowers.  As soon as the first leaves…

At Granuaile’s 4 month check up, the doctor said we should begin putting her to bed awake, thus teaching her how to fall asleep on her own.  The problem with this method is that she usually falls asleep during a bottle, which, of course, we give her at bedtime.  Up until now, the give her…

Well, it took us two attempts to get Gracie’s 6 month check up done.  I originally made it on a morning when Brighid had no school so that I could have an extra pair of hands with me.  Brighid is still treating her hip injury, so I had to drop Eilis off at school at…

Grace has learned in the last week or so to blow raspberries, and is ever so proud of herself for learning this amazing feat.  If you come withing 2 feet of our little Old Faithful, you will be doused with a hearty helping of baby spit.  Her father and her sister Eilis take great pride…

It is mid-morning, and I am sitting on the floor of my sister’s bedroom.  I cannot remember why I am sitting there, but the phone rings and she goes to answer it.  It is Jim Something Long, she tells me.  I say, of course, who?   She doesn’t know, she hands me the phone.  When…

Boo!   It’s Halloween in Bellmawr, so that means the man a couple of streets over from us is going all out again with his Halloween decorations.  He’s got the spooky spider webs that cover his house from one end to the other.  He has the requisite pumpkins, bats, and giant spiders.  He has the…

So Eilis is taking a drama class.  It started on Saturday, and it is at a local community college.  To get her excited about going to the class, her dad kept telling her she was going to college before Brighid and how cool was that.  She was so excited – she even exclaimed that you…