Author Archives: Jessica

“Mom, you know what I just noticed? Grandmas and grandpas are smaller than dads and moms.”

Asher: “Mom, Levi left his underpants on the bathroom floor.” Me: “You can pick them up and throw them in the dirty laundry if you want to be nice.” Asher: “I don’t want to pick them up with my dirty hands.”

“When the baby comes out, I’m going to let her suck my thumb.”

I found this scribbed on a piece of paper in my work bag so that means we were out and about and Jude said something cute that I jotted down.  I don’t think I got it entered here so here it goes, “Mom, did you ever notice that you can talk to yourself in your …

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The 5 boys whacked open the pinata today to reveal that it’s a girl!   Can’t say that I grasp that reality.  A girl.  That is a foreign creature to me.  I don’t know exactly what I’m going to do with her.  I plan to give her lots of kisses and cuddles (which certainly can’t …

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6 weeks from her due date: “I wasn’t hungry until you said ‘snack.’”

Yesterday the Reindls came to visit for the weekend.  So, last night, Jude donated his room to the Reindls and I packed my 3 boys in the “turquoise room.”  Asher was on the twin bed, Jude was on the floor on a make-shift bed and Levi was on the day bed.  The top bunk of the …

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“Mommy, did you know that in one of my dreams I married you?”

“Daddy is the King of us, you are the Queen of us and we are the kids.”