It’s birthday time! James is five years old today!
We have many fun things planned for the weekend. He has opened two presents this morning – a bunny magnet playset from Alphabet Alley and a DVD with 20 classic Howdy Doody episodes. (I had a real Howdy Doody doll when I was about [...]

For Robert’s first birthday cake, I wanted something not too sweet and relatively healthy. I made honey cupcakes for Nicholas’ first birthday, but they proved too sweet for a baby who’d never had a trace of sugar. For James’ first birthday, I made a carrot cake which turned out wonderfully but I wanted [...]

I love birthday parties. We never do any huge bash, but we make the day fun and memorable for the honoree of the day. I’ve made the birthday cakes for each of our kids’ birthdays every year except when Nicholas turned six. He wanted an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen that [...]

Today is my youngest son Robert’s birthday. He’s one year old today!
Since I shared a photo a year with you on Nicholas’ birthday, I thought I’d share a photo a month in honor of Robert’s first year.
His due date was January 24, 2008. When I was seven months pregnant, Nicholas took this picture [...]

My oldest son Nicholas turns eight years old today! For a long time, I would look at him and think, “Where did he come from?” It was always so hard to believe that I had my own child. Even after James came along, I would think the same thing about both of [...]