Kids have an amazing ability to be annoying. Your kids don’t do any of these things, do they? Stand next to her bed while she’s sleeping and whisper “Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom.” until she wakes up. Stand next to her bed while she’s sleeping and poke her arm – gently – until she wakes up….
Christmas Morning in Photos
Christmas has been over for….well, long enough. I really should have shared these pictures by now, but as soon as we got home from our holiday trip to Florida, kids got sick, there were tasks to take care of and deadlines to meet. So here I am, after New Years, sharing our Christmas morning pictures….
Salvation, Courtesy of Maytag
I’ve spent considerable time over the last 6 months complaining about our broken dishwasher. On a good day, I would spend a full hour washing dishes-for-seven by hand. On an average day, I spent closer to 2 hours washing dishes. And on a bad day, my kitchen looked like this: Stacks and stacks of rinsed…
Top 10 Things I Learned on Vacation
I am home. I survived two 17 hour car trips with 5 kids and a husband. I successfully left my blog to it’s own devices and took a true break. A vacation! And I am back home, looking forward to a glorious night sleep in my own bed. Taking a break from blogging is the…
Long Drives Elicite Random Thoughts
First of all, I wouldn’t recommend trying to blog after spending 17 hours in a car. It doesn’t work very well. You know you’re tired and loopy when you stop at a gas station and see a Blockbuster video store, point and say, “Look! It’s a dinosaur!” I swear I meant to say Blockbuster, and…
Surviving Long Car Trips With Kids
If you are reading this, then you can, with sympathies, imagine me in a packed-to-the-brim mini van with 5 active kids. We’re on our way to spend the holidays with Nana and Grandpap in Florida. Whenever anybody hears that we are crazy enough to drive 18 hours with 7 people packed in a car, they…
Teaching Kids the Spirit of Giving, Not Receiving
As soon as Halloween is over, the Christmas decorations slowly make their way out in every store. By the time Thanksgiving is here, Christmas has officially taken over retail, television, and radio. Soon our neighborhoods are also reminders of the Holiday season. It’s hard to leave the house or tune in to anything outside your…
The Best Christmas Craft Project Ever!
My kids and I traditionally decorate our Christmas tree together each December. This year, however, we took decorating the Christmas tree to a whole new level and created something that we will hopefully be keeping around as a Christmas decoration for years to come. We were sent a recycled cardboard Christmas tree from Cascades Boutique…
Smiles for Grandpa
Despite the fact that two of my children refused to smile for this group picture with Grandpa on Sunday and were sent to their rooms (darn kids ruined a perfectly good photo for posterity) this picture makes me smile. I smile because I can hear the kids playing and laughing with Grandpa. I can picture…
Big Girls Need Their Daddies, Too
When I was a little girl, small enough to still fit on my dad’s lap, I needed my daddy for many things. I needed daddy to help me with my math homework, to put a band-aid on a cut, to reach something high on the shelf. Daddy was big and he was strong and he…
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