Family Portraits
Joey Turns 11 and Random Thoughts About My Middle Son!
This month Joey turned 11! I can remember when he was two, climbing up on the counter to get an “ashew” (apples. He still loves his apples and all fruit for that matter…) and how he used to push a chair up against the door when he was two so he could climb on it…
Life’s a Three Ring Circus
This past weekend we took the kids and my mom to the local circus. It’s always a thrill to sit in the big arena and watch all the animal, dare devil and acrobatic acts. Though while my eyes flitted from ring to ring trying to soak it all in I noticed my little girl was…
Gift Venture
Whether it’s Christmas morning and they’re hunting for their gifts like the Magi searching for baby Jesus or whether they create their own treasure hunt for grandma, my children love treasure hunts. They love making them, but more so they love going on a treasure hunt. So when I heard about Giftventure.com and how their…
When it Pours it Thunders!
In my last whine, I mentioned that I got really mad at hubby. If I hadn’t have had a rough time with my teen earlier that day, I probably could have handled the situation better, but I didn’t. Though to my credit, I didn’t engage in my ritualistic hip reaction of anger. Instead, I internalized…
Next Time I’ll Have to Think Twice Before I Say…
family stuff is going pretty smoothly so I don’t have much to whine about!:) Ha! Today was a really rough day. Just when I thought I was enjoying my teen (with minor exceptions to normal moodiness,) he pushed me back over the edge! Unfortunately my moms says he’s a lot like me at his age.…
What if Einstein Watched Television as a Baby?
Every new mom wants the best for their baby. I was no exception. Thirteen years ago when my first son was born, I planned on nursing for at least a year, making my own baby food, really connecting and nurturing my baby, and not plopping him in front of the television. Well, Chris wasn’t getting…
Change
It’s been three weeks since my mother moved in. I haven’t blogged about it yet, at first because I was a little nervous having a mother living in the same town after twenty years on my own. Then life got busy, and there wasn’t much to report on. Things are going better than I could…
My Little Stars!
My boys (Joey, 10 &Chris, 13) auditioned for The Music Man last week. Before auditions we rented the movie, and I said that Joey (10) would make a great Winthrop and Chris (13) would be a great quartet singer. But Chris wasn’t interested in that part. He wanted to be Tommy, the town trouble maker.…
It’s Show Time, Again and a School Update!
I can’t believe it’s show time again. Well, not action show time, but audition for their school’s production of The Music Man is tomorrow. Their small Classical Christian school is non for is top notch performances which is great, but also means there’s a chance they might not get the big parts they are getting…
Here We Go A Caroling
As a child of about ten years old, one of my favorite things about Christmas was going Christmas Caroling on Christmas Eve. Along with the neighbors, we’d bundle up in our winter coats and take our candles with tinfoil holders, caroling music sometimes tucked under our arms. Then the five or six us us would…