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How time flies…
It flies in the eyes of Sunshine Doodle, six weeks old already and taking in more and more of the world around her every day.

It flies on the back of Sweet Doodle, as she lays on the ground [...]

I don’t often do product reviews here at Doodles’ Place (I’m on a mission to declutter, and product reviews in general tend to lead to more stuff), but when  One2One Network announced that they were looking for bloggers to review the new Harry Connick, Jr. CD — Your Songs — I immediately submitted my name/blog.
You [...]

As I mentioned on Sunshine Doodle’s birth announcement, her labor and birth wasn’t quite what we had expected, although I can’t really complain about it either.
The plan was to break my water Saturday morning, and we all expected things to progress very quickly based on my history.
We arrived at the hospital at 8:00 a.m. on [...]

Sidney Hope was born at 2:28 p.m. yesterday, Saturday, September 12th, after about 5.5 hours of labor. It was an *interesting* labor, for sure, and I hope to get around to typing up that story as soon as I finish processing it in my head!
She is 20″ long and weighed in at 6 lbs. 13 [...]

Your comments on yesterday’s post were SO encouraging to me, and I truly appreciate every one of your prayers!
As it turns out, yesterday ended up being a fairly good day. The second enema I gave my sweet girl (TMI, I know…) ended up doing the trick, and she seems to be feeling much better. No [...]

In the five years since I became a mother, there have been just a handful of times that I have felt completely and totally overwhelmed and sure that I was in over my head!
The first time was the first night we brought Pumpkin Doodle home from the hospital. I remember sitting on the floor with [...]