The Clark Family Experience

I took the kids for a walk on Tuesday morning when the temperature was a balmy 65 degrees and the humidity must have been at least 85 percen...

The kids and I are flying to Utah on Friday, never to return to our little house in the ghetto; I am so excited to be out of Lansing but fee...

I'm amazed by how quickly children grow up, especially when they do it right before my eyes. Just last week I felt like Karli would be ...

My poor digital camera finally gave up its ghost after three long years of toddler abuse. It's door hung by a meager, broken hinge for a...

Karli has finally taken someone over to the dark side; Rex enjoys spending time in the buff just as much as she does. Thank heavens he can...

Rex has been smiling a bunch; of course, his best smiles occured just before we turned on the camera today. He is very well natured and we ...

Amber is going to take over your career! She loves to cook and even has her own little toque. Here's the first take of the "Chees...

I've dreaded the moment for the span of my motherhood, and it finally happened last night at Target. Amber and Karli were in the shoppi...

Check out my all-time favorite TV commercial in the sidebar. I saw it the other night on So You Think You Can Dance and I got teary-eyed be...

As an English major, I'm pretty much enthralled by language and the acquisition thereof (nerd alert!). One of my favorite things to witn...

To all of you ladies out there (I don't think I've achieved the blogger popularity of having mannies read my blog, but in case I hav...

Amber and Karli are talking up a storm these days; Karli is learning how to use sentences and Amber is rapidly increasing her vocabulary (a ...

Amber has always loved mermaids; she was Aquamarine for Halloween and is obsessed with Disney's "The Little Mermaid". She eve...

My little sister, Allison, was called to the Denmark Copenhagen mission today. My cousin, Skyler, is serving there, too, so they'll ge...

Living in Michigan has taught me to appreciate the things I hated while growing up in Idaho and Utah, but living in a desert is the thing I ...

Here are some of Rex's best tricks--the gang signs he's learned from five weeks of living in the ghettos of Lansing. He's a ...

Last night we had yet another brush with crime and punishment; of course, we wouldn't be able to have a normal week at The Arbors withou...

The other day, Amber and Rex interacted so much that they tuckered right out on the couch. It was adorable!

I never believed that having strict schedules and enforcing routines was all it is cracked up to be. Yes, I know, many of you are frenetica...

People always tell me it's the small things that make life wonderful and I agree. I find it funny that once in a while, the small things...