I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. Gabriel and Lily didn’t tolerate their costumes for long, but they did give us a chance to get some cute pictures. Julie

When that little pink line appears in the EPT window, it seems as if there is a secret communication link right there in the pregnancy test. Seemingly within hours, Parent magazine (not my favorite, BTW) shows up on your door step along with samples of diapers and other baby kit. What doesn’t arrive, [...]

I received an e-zine article the other day that got me started thinking. The article was from Seventh Generation’s Non Toxic Times and it was about the 100-Mile Challenge. The idea is that you try to buy food that is produced within a 100 mile radius of your house for a month and [...]

I spent a lot of Gabriel’s first year obsessing about milestones. One of the first ones (outgrowing his infant car seat) came a lot sooner than we expected when we learned at his four month well-baby visit that he was too long to safely continue on in the seat. But there was also [...]

Well, whether we like it or not, life goes on without my Dad. We spent two healing weeks in the mountains (see pictures), and now we’re home for a few weeks before returning to Florida for another memorial service. I’ve gone through the stages of grief–a lot of denial and anger, a lot of [...]