(one year ago today!) Somehow our baby Grace is turning two on Saturday!! When we moved to Zagreb, she was just an itty newborn. Now she is a firecracker with enough personality for about ten people! Here are some fun Gracie things lately... She loves arranging and rearranging the jars of flowers I always have throughout the house... dramatically smelling every one and bringing us each a flower.  I love that!! She also picks lavender every day in the backyard and happily skips around ... continue reading...

Cam and I have been thinking a lot lately about how to teach our kids personal responsibility and make it fun since they're little. I have the HUGE blessing right now of having Cam home part of the week with us when he's not in school, but on the days it's me flying solo with the kids, my mind is pretty much always trying to come up with more ideas to get our toddlers to help out since I'm so often holding, feeding, changing our newborn and don't have enough hands. Some days I'm good about ... continue reading...