All about our family of eight: triplets + three singletons!
October 2011 I had made a new friend, and we bonded over chickens. She had some, and I wanted some. I had told her I wanted to raise meat chickens eventually, and that I wanted to learn to butcher them. So one Friday evening while I’m making pizza, she calls me: “April, I need to …
October/Halloween 2011 – One Year in our New State Read More »
August 2011 Going to Bear Lake is a tradition Adam grew up with. His grandparents owned a lot on the lake, and every year they camped up there with their 1,000,000 cousins. His grandma and grandpa had an old trailer they slept in. It had a bathroom and electricity and running water, but those were …
Spring 2011 One of the gifts of moving here when we did is our kids got to know one of their great grandpas. They had met him on our trips here before, and he had visited our home in Atlanta once, but they were so young that they wouldn’t remember. He was diagnosed with liver …
May 2011 Because I was 100% sure this was our house, I decided we should find a month-to-month rental, preferably in the neighborhood. We had moved and shuffled so many times already, I wanted to start getting settled, get the kids enrolled in preschool for the fall, meet new friends, etc. I finally found a …
Another fun night out with the triplet moms. Here we are pretending to be normal. We had a brief window of nice weather on April Fool’s Day, so we went to a triplet day at the zoo. April Fools! It’s gonna snow again soon and keep snowing until the end of May! It kind of …
Grandma had an Easter egg hunt at her house for all the cousins. She puts candy, trinkets, and the occasional $5 bill in them. We were lucky that there was no snow on the ground at this point because it snowed so much that winter that we thought it would never end. It was the …