Category: Babies

The Big Sister proudly announces the debut of her Little Sister.   Friday, March 13 8:30 p.m. 7 lbs, 8 ounces 19 inches   More photos and the birth story to come...

Once Upon A Time...there was a children's boutique in San Antonio that made a little girl very happy. The boutique? Sugarplum Dreams. The little girl? My 2-year-old daughter. The scene? Two exquisitely wrapped gifts with a princess costume, a matching cloak, and a box of shortbread cookies inside. Sugarplum Dreams is a family company (owned […]

When my husband was a little boy, his aunt always bought him a pair of shoes on his birthday. And not just any pair of shoes. A high-quality pair of shoes. As he got older, she even let him in on the shopping process and he was given the opportunity to select a pair of […]

These last days are wistful and exciting, frightening and full. Soon - very soon - our second child will be here in our arms. We'll be holding her and smelling her sweet baby hair and getting lost in her deep and thoughtful eyes. I've received a number of requests for a "pregnancy update" so here's […]

As many of you know, I experience rather extreme morning sickness with my pregnancies. The first one was bad; the second one was worse. Four months of misery. I'll never know why I'm one of the lucky minority that gets the privilege of becoming fast friends with Vomit and Fatigue and Dehydration, but I do […]

There are many things that I love about our house. The "split floor plan" isn't one of them. It seemed like such a great idea when we bought our house pre-baby. We knew we would probably have kids in this house, but we naively thought that it wouldn't be a big deal to walk down […]

I still remember the first slumber party that I hosted at my house. It was my 10th birthday. I wore my purple shirt and black leggings. Alison and Cynthia and Wendy were there. We had pizza. We watched movies. We drank fizzy root beer floats in plastic cups. We played Girl Talk. Everything seemed so […]