A Firefighter's Wife

Honestly, how can you not love seeing your kid giggling and having the time of his life while he swings away!

As I’ve mentioned before, my parents live in a beach community.  I love, I mean, love, their neighborhood.  If we could, we would move down there (which is totally my goal).
Anyway, my parents have a Duffy boat, which is a small little electric boat that goes about 5 miles maximum.  We were there the other [...]

Don’t take your tired child in a drive-thru car wash.
This will only result in said child freaking out and crying.
You will then have to twist your ginormously pregnant body around, remove child from car seat, and rock them in the driver’s seat while the car gets washed.  You will then have to put child back [...]

For Mother’s Day, my whole family got together and hung out at my parents’ house.  We had a nice lunch, had my mom open her gifts, and just chatted the afternoon away.
Ricky had gotten an overtime, so it was just Des and me at my parents.  We had gone a visited Ricky at the station [...]

So once Ricky and Des put together the chest of drawers, we put it in the girls’ room.  We’ve been slowly getting stuff ready for the girls, organizing the clothes, washing their bedding, and cleaning out as much of the office supplies in the room as possible.
We’ve yet to put together their crib, but we’ll [...]