White Gables Blog

Today I will enjoy the beautiful fresh snow. I will be patient with the children when they misbehave. I will spend quality time with the kids. I will take it easy so I’m not completely worn out when hubs comes home from work. I will not worry about having a perfectly clean & organized house. […]

We brought Violet home from the hospital last night and it felt GREAT to have our family back again!! She is doing really well – just has a little cough occasionally. And my life has quickly returned to the chaotic normal that it is. This morning I’m making granola in the kitchen, Violet starts to […]

It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting at the Ronald McDonald House by myself since Hubs went home to be with the kids, and I’m wondering where in the world the last ten days went. It all seems like a dream. Not a good dream but not a nightmare either. When I start to feel sorry […]

Today, as I sit by Violet’s hospital bed and hear the hum of machines, the beeping of alarms, the quiet conversations between nurses, I feel so very grateful… Grateful for the wonderful medical care that we have been blessed with. I often wonder what would have happened to Violet 100 years ago when they didn’t […]

The past few days have been such a whirlwind – hopefully what I write makes sense! I feel like my brain is on autopilot, and I’m just going through the motions of life. Doing what I need to do to get through these days. Violet was not improving at the hospital and the doctors were […]

This is what our doctor told me just after he said that we would most likely be spending Christmas in the hospital. And, unfortunately, that’s what happened. Early last week baby Violet had a stuffy nose that progressed to a cough, then on Thursday evening she had a very high fever. Our doctor met me […]

It has been chills-bills around these parts lately, so we’ve mostly just stayed inside in our pj’s all.day.long. Is that wrong? I don’t think so. We’ve coaxed more smiles out of this messy-haired love machine… I could seriously just munch on her all day long. Avery’s been a good helper as you can see. She […]

New discovery: Getting 6 straight hours of sleep actually makes me a pleasant person to be around! Wow, I feel like a new woman thanks to the hubs getting up during the night to feed the baby a bottle! Yay for helpful husbands!! Someone requested an art piece similar to the canvas art on Red […]

In between diaper changes, feeding the baby every 3 hours, mopping up the bathroom floor that got covered with poopy toilet water thanks to a certain little boy who threw a wad of wipes into the toilet and another certain little girl who flushed when she shouldn’t have, breaking up sibling squabbles every 10 minutes, […]

I wasn’t sure how much Christmas decorating I would be able to do this year, but the bug hit and I couldn’t resist! Things that used to take me a day to do now take me a week, and I’ve gotten used to the idea that having an almost-two year old boy in the house […]

First of all, I can’t take credit for coming up with this project. I totally stole the idea from Lisa Leonard’s blog. I bought this doormat for $6.97 from Walmart: I printed out lettering for the word “joy” using the font American Typewriter and I printed it onto thicker coverstock paper. Then I used a […]

So Miss Violet is now one month old. How time flies! Honestly, it’s been a very challenging month. She still is a very good, content baby, but the older two kiddos wear me out at times! Jack has decided that he is now a two-year-old and loves to tear the house apart. And Avery has […]