Choosing Motherhood Release!!

We are VERY excited to announce the release of  Choosing Motherhood: Stories of Successful Women Who Put Family First.  Emily had the great opportunity to share time and friendship with a group of outstanding women while we lived in Connecticut for graduate school at Yale. In the setting of this group of accomplished friends, they not only embarked on motherhood, but also took initiative to chronicle the contrasting challenges and successes of their professional lives and their personal lives. Each of them, including Emily, composed an essay which was then compiled for this work.


Read more about the book here.

The book will be released in forums from Amazon to Barnes and Noble, from the Yale Bookstore to Deseret Book. It is being acclaimed by best-selling authors such as Linda Eyre, co-founder of Values Parenting. The stories are personal and revealing. It is loved by anyone who is a mother, has a mother, or hopes to be a mother. It is a great Mother's Day gift idea for your Mother, Wife or Daughter.


This book has truly been a labor of love to each of the women who contributed to it. It will be a joy to each of you as you read it!

Read more about the book's authors and visit an interactive blog with ideas for mothers on the official website.

Cousins come

We recently had all of Audrey and Grace's cousins here for a visit.  It was bedlam much of the time with so many age 5 and under.  It was sooooo fun to have them all here.  We feel so lucky to have such a wonderful family.  We love, love, love our cousins.  I wish I had done a better job with the camera while they were here.  I have very few pics, unfortunately.

Charlotte

Grace turned 2, Bennett and Kyree 1

Couped by Croupe and other Goings On

Audrey continues to love her preschool where each week they make something fabulous from the letter of the day.  Her teacher has been great and Audrey is a hard worker.  She can read the simple sight-word books that are sent home with her.

Moments like these are perhaps my very favorite as a mom.


"Winter" is when we are able to get out of doors here in the desert.  So we have been taking advantage by going on hikes and to many, many parks.

Another southwest tradition...burritos a la babies.

So Grace has started an unwelcome tradition.  Last February or March she ended up in the ER with double pneumonia.  So when she was really sick at the end of January I was determined to take enough short steps so that we wouldn't end up with the long step of an ER trip again.  But to no avail.  After tramping to the Urgent Care Friday evening at the bequest of her physician by phone triage, she was misdiagnosed.  Lots of medicine and a weekend of sleepless nights later Monday morning dawned and she was no better.  By noon she was worse.  At the 1 o'clock pediatrician's appointment she told me to head towards Banner Cardon's ER.  8 hours later we had a correct diagnosis (croupe and a severe ear infection), some IV fluids and medications going that turned a lethargic Grace back into my rambunctious little one.  She wanted to walk after laying in my arms most of those 8 hours.  But the poor little thing had been sick so long that after walking a ways with daddy, she fell over from weakness.  I'm glad to say that by the end of the week she was back at full strength.  Too bad Disneyland with the cousins started Thursday.   She made it half the day Friday. :)

The best of childhood in Arizona.