Recently a good friend of mine was visiting with her young kids and watching her go through the bedtime routine with the younger ones really took me back to when my own daughters were young. With older children, you tend to forget that “witching hour” when it seems like all the energy in the … [Read more...]
Cuddles
Cuddle - v. to hold close in one's arms as a way of showing love or affection, n. a prolonged, affectionate hug Well, we all know what a cuddle is, but in Ava Scarlett-speak, when she asks, Can we have a cuddle? what she actually means is she wants to go sit someplace of her choosing with you, so … [Read more...]
The Way They Play – Part V
This child loves mud.No. She loooooooves mud, holy balls.We head outside each day, and as soon as I've turned by back for a second, she's walking towards me with a plastic container filled with dirt and water, and she's busily stirring it with a little spoon. Or a stick. Or with her fingers.It is … [Read more...]
My Tasmanian devil
So when first child came along - she was so easy, so angelic- I thought WOW I am a great mom And just like you should never say " I never get sick" or "I never get speeding tickets" because WHAM you get hit with both I must have said WOW I am a great mom too many times because then I got … [Read more...]
On Her Way
School day mornings are always frantically harried at my house - making sure that my older two kids are awake and fed and clean and have school lunches and signed handouts and agendas and love notes in their lunches and homework packed (and completed) and clean faces and brushed teeth and tidy hair … [Read more...]