Someone asked me yesterday if I ever get overwhelmed. Asked during one of those moments when everything is going well, no one is screaming and it’s looking like I have it all together, I stumbled saying something like this. “Oh yeah. But then you remove your emotions from the equation and just do the next […]
Hungry? You will be.
After very nearly taking out a sparrow on our way home last night, I said, “That bird was almost toast!” “Oh, I get it. Because the window is so warm today,” said my new front-seat passenger, who is learning all she can on driving from her new vantage point. Not exactly. So I set out […]
Insulated underwear.
Long story short(er), I had a disagreement over how many coats one dear daughter needs, I made a declaration that one church coat is adequate and the other, unworn yet this year, needs to be in the tote for next year. Since the well-worn, much-loved coat has been worn for, ahem, 4 winters now, it’s […]
Imagine:
The excitement around here when Charlotte woke up dry. With diaper rashes often a problem for Charlie, she’s run around bare bottomed a lot. I’ve dug out the potty but not actually tried to potty train her. Something about 16 months old sounds a little young to me. But she was dry! I plopped her […]
Chores.
My kids have to help with chores. It’s accepted as life around here. But the motivation, the lists, the checking on their work, the forgetting – it was all about to drive me batty. Methods of reminding are constantly evolving though. I made morning routines. For a while, it worked well. The kids each had […]
Ten.
Ten years ago, I was eighteen years old. I was new to the state of New York, having moved to Long Island to take a job as a nanny. I’d been placed there with an agency. Two weeks after I started that job, I was having a hard time finding a likeminded church. A friend […]
the darndest things
Eden used to say the funniest things. Usually it stemmed from speaking beyond her knowledge of vocabulary. Today, we went there again. Looking through their photo books, Eden saw a photo of Ruby with our hamster. “Oh! There’s our ger-bil.” Hard G. No “j” sound. She frowned at me when I told her the g […]
Great news.
Great news. I have it all so together. I just ordered prints for the first time since October 2010. You know, when Charlotte was a newborn. On the bright side, my cart in Snapfish sat so long that the coupon codes saved me $21. Sweet! I’ll catch up someday. Maybe. Probably not.
Time for a more masculine project.
I’ve been wanting to use this pattern for a while, but I couldn’t find wool at any of my local stores and hadn’t gotten the chance to trek across town to better stores. Complaining to Blaine about Hobby Lobby’s lack of wool material, he suggested cutting up his coat. You know, the one that has […]
Dumb bug.
Friday had four girls throwing up. Saturday had Momma wishing she would. Sunday it was Daddy’s turn and Charlotte went for round two. FYI: Do not feed a child hot dogs if there is even a remote chance of seeing it for a second time. Sterling and Pierce are the anomalies around here. Sterling is […]
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