I won’t say much here. Partly because I don’t need to sink into nostalgia today. Lol! I’ll simply link to my sweet girl’s birth story and her newborn photos and post some cute pictures. The main focus of her birthday this year was a cake. It began a couple months before her birthday. She came…Continue Reading “Remi turns 3”
The Picking I’m a sucker for an experience. Offer me a chance to haul my brood to pick cherries from a tree during the golden hour and I will jump at the chance! Thanks to the generosity of a friend from church, we were given that chance! It was just as lovely as it sounds….Continue Reading “Cherry Picking and Finger Licking”
You might remember that I made a year in the life film for our family, featuring adventures from our life in 2016. It has remained one of the most cherished projects I have ever undertaken (undertook?). My nostalgia is quite satisfied by these films. I’m ever so happy I took the time to do this…Continue Reading “Tarchala Family – Year in the Life Film 2018”
Ready for a boring story about my basement? A few years ago I was on the hunt for a simple citrus juicer. I reached out to my mom about their old juicer they had since replaced with something new. They could no longer locate the older juicer so they offered me a manual juicer that…Continue Reading “When Life Gives you a Lemon Juicer”
So here we are. My third baby’s first birthday party. What feelings do I have about this? Well, all of them. The whirlwind of motherhood is spinning exponentially faster with each new addition. The years are blips and their sweet faces morph in warp speed until you’re staring at a toddler who seems minutes away…Continue Reading “Remi’s First Birthday Party!”
It’s true, I’ve only been at this parenting thing for six and a half years, so I’m pretty certain there are future moments that will top this list. But for now, we have officially experienced the toughest parenting milestone for me yet. Losing a tooth. Miles lost his first (and soon after, his second) tooth…Continue Reading “The Mother of all Milestones”
In late October we visited Schaake’s Pumpkin Patch near Lawrence, KS. I love their selection of pumpkins, which includes many unique colors and patterns. It has been our favorite for a number of years now. This year we invited Steven’s parents to join us for the traditional patch perusal and pumpkin picking. We tromped among the…Continue Reading “The Mystery Pumpkin”
Labor Much like the birth stories of my first two children, this day started with a pang, just sharp enough to wake me from my sleep. I sat up in bed around 2 a.m. on Sunday, February 4. I grabbed my phone and eagerly opened my contraction timer app and waited. Being 6 days past…Continue Reading “Remi’s Birth Story”
As this pregnancy draws closer to it’s inevitable end, I have so many emotions! Primarily I’m regretting my decision to slack on updates. I do really enjoy looking back on the posts from my first two pregnancies and I wish I had taken the time to preserve more of the memories from this one, too….Continue Reading “Belly Day // Thirty-Eight Weeks”
When the hubby and I took our babymoon to Colorado in October I let myself skip a couple updates. I became addicted to being a slacker and let holidays and low-iron laziness rule. I only ended up taking a few update photos the rest of the pregnancy and even fewer of the update videos. I…Continue Reading “Belly Day // Thirty-Three Weeks”