Best Guacamole Recipe 2 large avocados 1/4 cup chopped red onion 1/2 chopped jalepeno pepper juice of 1/2 lime salt to taste We eat avoca...

Baby Love is eleven inches long this week, about the size of a butternut squash.  When Tim saw our squash on the counter he exclaimed, “...

Somewhat impractical, but totally cute, Mom and I made “bunting” burp cloths last week. Scraps of colored fabric, folded and ironed into t...

Me: I think our idea to only bring carry on luggage to Europe may be harder than I thought. I’ve been planning my outfits… and I don’t th...

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Our baby is the size of a carrot,   ten and a half inches long and 21 weeks old.  The flutters I feel are still very slight and rather in...

Our Easter weekend was everything it should be. Timmy and I celebrated with my parents and my Granny (mom’s mom), nestled into that place w...

Likes Celebrating 22 months with my sweetie. The fact that, a month from now, we’ll be in Europe. Our Easter plans to go home to my ...

Our baby is ten inches long this week, comparable to the size of a banana. Twenty weeks is the halfway point.   So far I’ve gained appr...

At week nineteen, baby Love is the size of a sweet potato and measures six inches from head to bum. Six inches is half of a foot, and I’m...

There is no room for anything but joy on April Sundays studded with patches of 80 degree sunshine and cool, refreshing spring breezes. ...

  It all started with me showing Mom an Etsy site full of wooden toys for babies. She immediately concluded that, rather than buying some,...

Let’s always remember the Sunday morning we woke up and decided to drive to go on an adventure to Chicago. I’ll remember how we barely ma...

Baby Love is the size of a bell pepper this week, and has grown to 5.5 inches long.   Last night Timmy and I opened our bedroom window w...

(Timmy in Europe, pre-Becki, summer 2006) Now that I am feeling better, I really want to start incorporating some exercise into my daily...

Becki’s Rules for Naming Children:   1. It has to flow nicely with O’Brien. Any names ending in “o” are out. For example: Theo O’Brien ...

Timmy took me out for an extra special date night last night. We went to The Roman Candle for a vegan pizza treat of the healthier kind (no...

  I grew up in the country, where Spring is bigger, brighter, and more beautiful. The hillsides turn into emerald seas overnight, and b...