finding our new normal

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-26T08:41:35-05:00September 26th, 2010|Announcements, My Family|

I honestly never thought there would be a day that this blog wouldn’t be the only blog I’d ever want and need. I’ve always poured my heart and our life and days into it along with my business. I’ve never regretted that, not once. I am who I am and I’ve been blessed immensely by blogging. I’ve met wonderful people, made lifelong friends, laughed, cried, documented, shared, and carved out my little space of the web for the sake of my children, my husband and myself. Why? So that we can remember.

And then Teagan got sick. And our days were painful and long and we were in crisis mode. And I couldn’t blog about it. I hated that I couldn’t, […]

10 on Tuesday on: a secret, parenting advice from a toddler & getting busted

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-21T10:52:41-05:00September 21st, 2010|My Family|

1. Tuesday is now officially the busiest day of the week at our house. I think I’ll start calling it “this day is going to kick my butt Tuesday” for short. Up early, big kids off to school, music class with the duder, trip to People Rx, home for lunch, quick nap for Teagan (I almost always have to wake him up, bummer), leave for carpool to pick up Taryn, back home to fix a quick early dinner and then back out to go watch Ty play football. Then home again, way past the little kids bedtime, spend an hour doing bath, pj’s, supplements and medications, put the little kids down, fix lunches and THEN, it’s time for me to […]

T vs. Kinder = Knock Out

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-01-10T22:16:53-06:00September 17th, 2010|Funny Places Taryn Sleeps, My Family|

Kindergarten is tough people.

Not for the weak.

I was trucking along down the aisle when I noticed a few people giving me strange looks. I stopped and looked in the basket. Her feet were up and out on either side of the basket, head propped on my purse, sound asleep. I tucked her feet in and moved on….

Totally out of focus iphone pic taken in the middle of Target today. Just had to document yet another one of her funny sleep moments (and here and here). I’m making a book out of them, I decided.