When I was newly engaged and was waiting for my engagement ring to be ready (it was behind schedule and I was heading home in a few short days to take engagement pictures), CandyMan broke the news to me that the ring would not be ready for our pictures and our trip. I was steaming….
An Apple a Day…
Help me win the Amazing Avocado Big Hit Grand Prize ($5000!) for my yummy Avocado recipe by voting daily for me at https://www.theamazingavocado.com/bighit/vote.php?id=8 I wish I could say that I eat an apple a day. I would if I hadn’t become allergic to them after having kids (I blame the summer I spent in Russia…
Critical
Help me win the Amazing Avocado Big Hit Grand Prize ($5000!) for my yummy Avocado recipe by voting daily for me at https://www.theamazingavocado.com/bighit/vote.php?id=8 I love my kids. They are strong, caring, beautiful children. I love being a mom. I love that I can stay home with them, even if I am busier now than I…
Smile Like You Mean It
KitKat has always had a beautiful smile. She is confident and kind, and smiles openly and frequently. But she has spent many years being self conscious of her smile. When her teeth came in, it became very clear that she was going to take after her daddy’s side of the family. She was cursed with…
How to Avoid Before-School Melt-Downs
Help me win the Amazing Avocado Big Hit Grand Prize ($5000!) for my yummy Avocado recipe by voting daily for me at https://www.theamazingavocado.com/bighit/vote.php?id=8 Mornings can be hectic with five kids in school. Heck, afternoons and evenings are hectic with five kids in school. But mornings present a completely unique and challenging…. challenge. Getting five kids…
Framed
The time has finally come. I’m taking Twizzler in to have his eyes checked, and I fear that it’s finally his turn to have his own set of eyeglasses like his dad and big sisters. He’s got all of the signs: squinting, complaining that he can’t read things, ans sadly…..family history. My girls got their…
According to my Daughter….
Reese begged me tonight after dinner to let her work on something on my computer. She said she needed to write something and she could NOT write it by hand. I was heading out to Back to School night at the elementary school, Twizzler was heading to cub scouts, KitKat was already at the big…
Day One
This week, I had the joy of meeting my new niece on her first full day on earth. She was born over a month early, but was perfect in every way. It was love at first site. Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child? ~Dorothy L….
Revisiting my Happy Place: Back-to-Blogging Day 2
The SITS girls are holding a week-long challenge to get all of us back into the blogging routine after Summer. Yesterday, I reposted my almost-very-first blog post ever, from October 2007. Today the challenge is to find a post that you wish more people had read. That’s a tough one. I thought about posting one…
Apparently, I’ve Become THAT Kind of Mother
I was doing so well sending the kids off to school this morning. Everyone woke up at a reasonable hour (meaning, no one refused to wake up), everyone ate a good breakfast and got dressed in clean clothes. Hair was brushed. Shoes were put on. Pictures were taken. And then, I got a text message….
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