I really didn't intend to completely abandon my blog, but that's what I did for the past year!  I'll just say that I had a reall...

At 5 am, Rebecca woke me to ask whether she had enough money saved to buy her American Girl doll. She must have dreamed about it, because th...

        When we all walked in to school on the first full day (Wednesday, September 5, 2012), there was a long line of kids and p...

The first week of school was a great success! On Tuesday, we all headed out for Rebecca's first ...

Tomorrow, my little girl starts kindergarten. How can this possibly be?  Where did the time go?  Who is this five...

We were able to escape for a wonderful family vacation to Maui a couple of weeks ago.  We left on a Friday and came back the following Satur...

Asleep, surrounded by all her friends