Um, help?

Alright, Inter-folks. I need help.
Do you have a morning routine for your kids? What is it? How many kids do you have? How old are they? What time do you need to be out the door? Does the routine help? Or do you still feel like you [...]

Another one gone

I’m not ready for this whole tooth-losing business.
Especially if it happens 2 or 3 teeth at a time.
When this week started, Jacob losing his teeth was the furthest thing from my mind. Then, he lost one on Tuesday. And yesterday, he lost another one.  So now, his two bottom front teeth are gone.
I’m [...]

Talk About Tuesday

Over Christmas break, Jake seemed to take 10 steps backward as far as his attitude was concerned…or at least his attitude toward me. It’s no secret that I’ve had more than a few fights with him over the way he talks to me and listens (or actually, doesn’t listen) to me. We [...]

Whoopdidoo!!

For the past 2 or 3 weeks, there has been a Whooping Cough outbreak in our school district. The majority of the cases are in the high schools (49 out of the 55 reported cases) with the other 6 scattered throughout the rest of the district.
I haven’t really been too concerned about it because [...]

My Growing Boy

I think we are in the midst of a pretty major growth spurt for Jacob. It remains to be seen, though, if it will manifest itself in some serious weight gain or some serious inches gained. And at 4 years old, he’s got pounds and inches to spare on most of his peers.
As [...]

TV Time

Dave was in a show over the weekend (he played one of the brothers in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and while he was gone for rehearsals over the last 4 weeks, I fell into a familiar trap…
Jake and Emma have been watching WAY too much TV. And I completely recognize that it’s [...]

And So it Begins….

Ahhh, I’m so happy that Sunday School and Preschool are back in session. Where else would Jake learn the wonderful gems that he won’t get from home? Here are just two of the things that has learned in the past couple of months:
Jaocb: (walks up to Dave with his arm outstretched) Pull [...]

How a swimsuit saved my sanity

We’ve been having this….um…problem with Emma.
You see, she rather likes tearing off her pull-up while she is in her crib. And she does not at all seem to mind that she ends up falling to sleep in very, VERY wet sheets….or worse. We thought after a few times of sleeping in her own [...]

Unbelievable

I’m an old pro at taking Jacob to preschool. I’ve had 2 years of going through the drop off line and having the teachers take him out of the car. Easy, breezy.
But that first day, 2 years, when they took him out of the car…whoa, boy. I immediately pulled off into the [...]

There’s hope!

First off, I want to thank everyone for leaving such great comments for me over the weekend. It was really encouraging to see what everyone said and it helped me out a lot! THANK YOU!!
We had a pretty good weekend. We spent the whole day together on Saturday doing family stuff which [...]