One of the things no one tells you about having kids is that for the next 10 years, you will talk about sleep. The thing about it is, I real...

I flew to Dallas on Friday for a 36-hour trip so I could look at the finalists in the house hunt and hopefully make an offer on something. I...

Bjorn was home this weekend. He was barely home for 48 hours, but it took us all no time to get back into our normal family groove. The litt...

Bjorn turned 34 today (convenient what we me turning 29 and all a couple weeks ago). He came home for the weekend. It was so nice and normal...

So our plan is all coming together. I'm almost embarrassed to say it for fear it will jinx it, but we got a contract on the house this w...

Over Memorial Day, some friends and I got a beach house. The whole thing was quite impromptu and ended up being a husbands/spouses free week...

So the house has been on the market for approximately 72 hours and hasn't sold yet. What gives, universe? Don't you know how totall...

Isn't this finished basement awesome? And so, so clean! The house officially went on the market today. I was half expecting that when i...

It was my birthday yesterday. It wasn't even an interesting birthday like one that ended in five or zero of even nine or one. Nope, just...

Meg has turned into a monster. An adorable, lovely, cuddly, curly haired, sweet talking monster. We went to the beach this weekend where she...

Remind me again why we're moving? Oh right, higher standard of living for less money and the chance to be near my family. That's goo...

So there's big news in Casa de Bennett, Internets -- we're moving to Texas! Bjorn got a new job down in Dallas, my hometown, and h...

I hit a new personal record this week -- we had four trips to the pediatrician. Of course, tomorrow is Saturday so we still have one more da...

Doesn't that look like fun? We had our first real bout of croup this weekend that turned into steroids and nebulizer treatments today, ...

So both kids are in the middle of some weird regressions. Meg has discovered waking up at night is fun! I suspect she's 1) teething 2) h...

With all my need to tell the story of getting the baby locked in the car, I forgot to mention we still went to beach and had a grand old tim...

Oh Craigslist, how I love you so. Seriously. I love this free service. So I wanted a toddler bed for Meg. I went on Craigslist, did some tro...

I got gas yesterday evening and didn't lock anyone in the car. Go me! I even remembered roll down a window and not hand her the keys wit...

A neighbor kindly invited us on Friday to her beach house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's about an hour and 15 minutes away, not ...

Despite my obviously charmed marriage, I have lots of crushes, usually on random celebrity types, i.e. people I will never, ever meet so the...