A Big Day

[written Saturday, April 23, 2011] Perhaps I should rename this blog, “Trying to Catch Up With the Days,” or, “A Mother’s Random Ramblings About Where the Time Went.” Today we got a box in the mail.  In it were the math books that my children will use during the next school year (ordering early because [...]

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What Would You Do???

Real life story, in real time: I have a child, not my three year old, but one of the older ones, who lost something today.  I found it earlier.  It is sitting in plain sight in his/her bedroom.  Plain sight, not hidden AT ALL.  This child frequently  looses things, and does not look for them.  [...]

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Childhood Songs

One of the thing that I just absolutely love about watching my children be children: hearing them sing songs about anything and everything!  Sometimes they sing about what they are doing or playing.  Sometimes they sing conversations they are having.  Sometimes they make up words to classical music they have heard.  Sometimes they sing to [...]

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Note To Self, re: Toys

Self, You just moved all of the toys from their home in the basement to another location in your home (so that the builders could work on the basement).  Now the children act like they have all new toys! If you remember correctly, this happened when you moved the toys to the basement too. And [...]

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Thankful

Last night I went grocery shopping by myself. As I was putting my groceries in the bags (yes, I go to one of those bag your own grocery stores.  It saves us a few bucks, and I like to bag my own groceries.  It’s a sickness similar to my love of all things office supply [...]

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Season: Spring

I was giggling to myself today about how my youngest likes to wear his undies backwards; he likes to see the characters.  Then I started thinking about how it is that my littlest one has come to wear undies…and no diapers.  How on earth did he get to be so big! So then I started [...]

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Sweet Success

Yesterday, I felt, was a success. I ended the day with a sense of great satisfaction despite the fact that I didn’t get dinner on the table (Handsome ended up cooking dinner, because I didn’t plan well), despite the fact that we were late to library time (just a bit, because I had to take [...]

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Things I Never Expected to Say…But Did

Really, I have said each of these things (one of them more than once) in the recent past: “Dimples, don’t put your mouth on people’s bottoms, please.” “No, you don’t get to try on underwear; you just have to know your size…why?  Well, because people generally don’t want to take home underwear that other people [...]

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Works For Me – Ahhhh! Eeeee!

Brushing toddler teeth: fun the first time or two, not so much after that. Two times a day – at least. When we were learning to brush our first child’s teeth a million years ago, we stumbled across a little trick that helps get the pearly whites brushed with little fuss! Sit or stand with [...]

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Works For Me – Mom I’m Bored II

Last year, I mentioned that my strategy for beating away the summer boredom was to keep a schedule (many more helpful ideas in that post). I wasn’t so sure how it would work, but it did – it worked so very well. Then I had two children; now I have four…so this summer is again [...]

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