Family Portraits
Fashionista Fever! Catch it!
When my seven year old grows up she wants to be a writer, a mom and fashion designer. Obviously the mom gig will have to wait, but she doesn’t have to wait for the rest to fulfill her dreams. She’s already written a couple dozen books and now FashionPlaytes.com can make the rest of her…
My Little Reader
Grace has finally learned to love to read THIS WEEK. She’s seven years old and though her reading is still not great, that doesn’t stop her from grabbing a book from her bookshelf and reading it for herself. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t understand all the words or read them all correctly, she loves…
A Seven Year Olds Christmas List
My daughter’s been listening to Christmas music for weeks now. She wrote her Christmas list even before that and she can’t wait for snow because that means it will be Christmas. Do you thinks she’s a little excited? Here’s her Christmas list as she wrote it. Think you can decipher it? Barbie and the three…
Teaching Your Kids to Soar
Post from the Past This book totally changed the way I viewed each of my children. In fact, I think it’s time I read through it again. When my oldest was two, he drove me crazy with his bossiness and his involvement in everyone’s business. He was demanding, confrontational with other children, and often had…
Playing is not always fun!
It’s been another crazy month at our house, but when isn’t it! I came home from ACFW to a kid quarantined with possible swine flu (don’t think it was) and that very week all four kids started rehearsing for a college production of Oedipus Cycle. We were going to take the fall off from plays,…
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
 I remember going to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus as a child. I don’t remember much of what actually went on, but I remember the feeling of awe! Three rings, nonstop excitement, a flurry of activity and don’t forget the cotton candy! It truly is the Greatest How On Earth! Each touring…
Disney on Ice Tour
It’s that time of year again, when Disney on Ice comes to our state fair. Fair time is always a fun and busy time of year and I always tell myself “this year I’m taking the kids to Disney on Ice.” Over the years we only made it twice. Once as a family to see…
I Need a Vacation
This month has been crazy, and in another post I’ll go into a little more detail about all the exciting stuff that happened this summer, but for starters my daughter and I just returned from an overnight trip to Charlotte to tape a show for the Raggs PBS children’s show. It was fun and furious…
Raggs and Dumpster, Here We Come! Paaaws Up!
As you’re reading this my seven year old daughter and I are on a plane (her FIRST plane ride,) heading for North Carolina to tape the Raggs PBS show and get interviewed by Dumpster the Cat. Life has been so crazy I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this yet, but here it goes… Mid…
Shark Girl Grace
This post is way past over due. In fact I should have blogged about it in April, but such is life and here it is! Grace’s first big tooth came in in April, before her 7th birthday. BEFORE she lost her first tooth! She noticed something poking her tongue and when I checked her bottom…