Nakita Baby

Today was such a fun day catching up with Aunt Jess! She was in town this week and we got a full day all to ourselves. We drove of this AM to pick up a Subway lunch and Jess in north Evanston and shoot over to NUG beach day. Fun that the kids got to [...]

K just had his ‘big’ class of the summer. The Orion class he’s been awaiting since the end of Princess Bride in the spring. He spent the morning learning quarterstaff moves and routines, and then the afternoon learning how to storm a castle and do field battle. D even joined in during the afternoon as [...]

Full of gratitude, full of appreciation, and this…. this…. creates my luck. So what did I do? Go out and buy a lotto ticket of course! ; ) It’s the night of the full moon! How can you not trust that one?!!
Great start to what I know is going to be a great week!  : [...]

It started out as one of those weekends that I just love. Not much planned and lots of laying low. Just enjoyin’ being at home. Ended up pretty much the same way, but the middle got kinda interesting.
So Fri of course we did our usual beach routine. It was not one of my most favorite [...]

This was a rough week for me. I don’t recall feeling this preggo this early with the other pregnancies, so I am attributing this to the heat. Overall, I feel fabulous. I don’t feel sleepy tired, but man-o-man my body is reacting to the heat…. and especially this week. It did not help that I [...]

This has been cycling facebook and as I reposted it to my wall, I just did not want that to get lost in the posts. It’s so well written/spoken that it should always be around!
Valedictorian Against Schooling (IMO a must read & was not written by me)
Yesterday at 4:10pm

Dear Editor,
(The following was read as the [...]

Ok, I really have just about had it with these au pair meetings! I am just not sure how/what to do at this point. I have planned some really cool events and I’m kinda sick of being treated like dirt by a massive amount of international au pairs. I mean, really….  here’s my for-instance that [...]

Tonight was the night! I cut and colored and I’m no longer blond! Everyone loves it, including me. Tomorrow is step 2 in my hair-doing process. I have to color one day and then highlight the next. So tomorrow, amongst my waffle making marathon I will put in my highlights, but it will still be [...]

Yep…. can’t believe it, but yep…. we are entering the 10 week countdown. Of course… if this lil’ one plans on coming around his/her due date! But yep, I just can’t fathom really. It’s something that just dawned on me while doing a little count, and realizing that I was actually in the 3rd trimester [...]

Yes, our dear hamster Noel has passed away today. We had seen her pretty frail the last 24 hours or so, and knew the end was coming. And this evening we found curled up in the corner, lifeless. She was a gift to the kiddos 2 Christmas’ ago and so I think she’s lived her [...]

I gots some swimmin’ fiends on my hands!
It’s been a fun couple of weeks with the swimming skills flourishing all around. K’s latest “tricks” have been to finally (and I mean FINALLY!! ; ) putting his head under water and realizing he won’t drown! Just last week he realized that he could stick his head [...]

What’s not to love about a Saturday? I think it is becoming my absolute favorite day of the week. Never used to be as I used to have a class to cart someone to, or errands to run, or meetings to attend. And as of late I have nix’d all of that. The classes must [...]

Yes… my next adventure is going to be teaching Bradley Method classes. Really very psyched about the concept as it will lead to the bigger picture as well. I ultimately would love to do Doula work, but seeing as I’m about to have baby 4, this idea is sorta on the back-burner for some time. [...]

This week’s to-do list is a mile long and I’m starting to feel like I’m barely staying above water. Not sure how this all piled up…. well, I could probably logically guess that I thoroughly enjoyed the start of summer and procrastinated more than I shoulda, and here I am wondering why I don’t have [...]

What an amazing day on the beach! Met the NUG’rs at the beach today and it was so perfectly amazing. Not too hot, not too cold and 5+ hours sunshine to die for. S was in pure form and it’s just so perfectly amazing to seem him back. There is nothing that stresses me more as a [...]

That is the question!
Yes…. my latest “dilemma”…. I had cut my hair pretty short in the last few months and LOVED it. It’s grown out quite a bit since then and I’m in the position of trying to figure out if I should grow it out, or cut it super short again. Yes, yes, I [...]