ColorStay Lipstick Removal

What is the best way to remove Revlon’s ColorStay Lipstick? After Sarah found her way into Fern’s purse, got ahold of her favorite lipcolor, and decided that she needed a makeover, we needed to find the best way to remove lipstick from a baby. We tried using diaper wipes, but that hardly made a difference. [...]

Word for the Day: Bubblegum

That is the flavor of the amoxicillin that we picked up last night for Ellie’s case of strep throat. So needless to say there is a lot of hand washing going on at the Nerhood house today.

Vowing Was Never So Much Fun

This was a weekend of firsts for the whole family. It was the first time that Ellie and Sarah went to sleep over. It was the first time that Sarah ever spent a night away from both parents. It was the first time that Fern and I had been to Linden, VA. It was the [...]

Tulips and Easter

Why didn’t we do this 13 years ago? Thanks to my mom, we have beautiful tulips around our front tree to welcome in Easter. (Click on the image to see more pictures)
This has been a crazy, busy weekend. It started on Friday, which I took off (I needed a mental health day). Even though the [...]

Off the Deep End

Well yesterday was Ellie’s last swimming lesson. It is amazing how much she has improved in just eight lessons. When we started Ellie would scream when her face got wet just taking a bath. We used to have to keep a towel handy at all times. Now, while she doesn’t like [...]

Satoshi Kitamura, Great Children’s Author

Satoshi Kitamura is one my children’s favorite authors. He has a series of board books that Sarah (and Ellie when she was Sarah’s age) wanted me to read over and over again. The series includes: Duck Is Dirty, Squirrel Is Hungry, and Bath-Time Boots. I would recommend that everyone with 1-2 years have at [...]

Two to be Doctors

We have two close friends that have decided that they are being called to go to medical school. This will be a second career for both of them. After a year of hard work of studying, preparing, test taking, applications, and interviews they’ve gotten their acceptances and scholarships and finally announced that they will be [...]

Another Ding

Well, at least it was my fault this time. I don’t know what it is about this family and minivans. We seem to the knack for getting into accidents with them. On Sunday as I was backing out of the church parking lot while trying to avoid hitting the parked cars, I scrapped the front [...]

What a Week

Who would have thought that we would travel from one extreme to the other so quickly. In my previous post I talked about what a great day we had. Well the very next day, Sunday, was one of the worst ever. Ellie was amazingly difficult, she argued and fought over everything. She scream, she cried, [...]

Monkey Girl and the Ice Cream Man Cometh

It was hard to believe that today was nearly the end of January; it was so warm and sunny. We had a really good day today. It started off with Ellie’s swimming lessons this morning. She is really amazing. Just over three week ago she hated getting her face wet while taking a bath. Now [...]