I don’t want to let today end without giving thanks. Chris, Mackenzie, and I are at Chris’s parents house to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Grandma Wilcox, David, and Heidi are here, too. I have a wonderful husband, and I’m so thankful for my extended…
Mackenzie is seven weeks old! We were waiting anxiously for her six-week “birthday,” and we have really enjoyed the interaction and big smiles that came with that milestone. She kept up her two-to-three hour routine, though, so we weren’t sure what to think. This…
I have a weakness for caramel — more than chocolate, and maybe even more than coffee. When it comes to holiday sweets, caramel wins out above anything else for me. When I found this recipe in the Williams-Sonoma Holiday Entertaining cookbook Chris’s mom gave…
I am a huge fan of A. A. Milne’s children’s stories, so it comes as no surprise that I’ve been reading classic Winnie the Pooh to Mackenzie as part of our soothing process. I’m thankful that Steve Jobs saw fit to include the first…
The last week has been marked in two- hour shifts with Mackenzie. We change her, feed her, snuggle and read with her, and put her back down for a nap. She’s great about napping in her crib during the day, but not so much…