Category Archives: Catherine Evolving

Bake. Or not.

It’s Friday night and I don’t really feel like cooking. Well, I do feel like cooking but the only things I fee like making require the oven. More importantly they require the bake button on the oven to work. How in the world does a bake button decide to stop working the night before your… Continue Reading

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One Showing Later…

A while back we started in on a fairly quick and fairly simple home improvement project. Simple. Ha. Quick. Ha ha. This simple project of replacing all the flooring in our home was expected to take four or five months. Approximately 15 months later we are finished. When putting the flooring in we figured we… Continue Reading

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Big News From the Evolving Mommy Household

2012 is a year of changes for the Evolving Mommy Family. For one, Madeline started preschool. That was a big change on its own. We have also decided to sell our house. We’ve been working like crazy to get it ready to list in the next couple of weeks and everything is coming together. Preschool,… Continue Reading

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My Surprise and My Daughter Shows Me I’m Doing Something Right.

As a parent some days are challenging. Those days make you yell or cry or feel so overworked you can’t imagine things being harder. We’ve all been there. I’ve been there. On the flip side some days are just sort of magical. Those magical days, no matter how normal and boring they might seem on the… Continue Reading

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Her First Day and I Didn’t Cry (although I might have felt like it once or twice)

Last night we set up Maddy’s brand new alarm clock. What use does a four year old have for an alarm clock? Several actually. We’ve been working with Maddy for a while on a morning routine. You see my child with her stay-at-home-mom has had a pretty easy morning routine for most of her life…. Continue Reading

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‘Tis Better To Give Than Receive – A Question Of The Week

The holiday season is here and in full swing. With this magical time of year there are generally presents. Lots and lots of presents. Bows and baubles. Ribbons and paper. This stuff is everywhere, and really it is like crack for kids. They just can’t get enough. Who doesn’t like gifts? I like gifts. We… Continue Reading

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Four is hard but not for the reasons you are probably thinking…

Four. The number four packs a punch. Madeline turned four recently and it hit me harder than previous birthdays. With one, two and three I remember feeling surprise as to how we had reached those ages so soon. I remember feeling a little nostalgia for the past but also a lot of excitement for what… Continue Reading

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