Teenagers and Cars
“Mom, can I sit in the driver’s seat?” my oldest says to me. After some consideration, torturing her during my silence, we switch seats. She …
Surprise Baby
Peek-A-Boo through my desk chair, who’s that? Uh oh! He’s got me! In so many more ways than one, he was a surprise, and boy …
Paint Today With Love
I suppose it doesn’t take much for a mom, huh? We get all ooey gooey when our child mutters a syllable, or draws us a …
Summer Family Fun
Every year we go out and buy some flimsy inflatable pool for our backyard. Every. Friggin. Year. Usually, we get the same pool and something …
Cooking With Kids
Cooking with children can be a scary concept, isn’t it? Don’t touch that! Hot! Stay back! Put that away, we’re eating soon! No, you can’t …
To Do Tuesday Week 16
If this is your first time reading and you’re wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find …
Can You Help?
Meet Ezra.Ezra just had his second birthday. For his birthday, instead of partying like normal two-year-old’s get to, with cake, ice cream and games, he …
Sometimes You Need Bubbles
Pouting through the glass door, I approached cautiously when sliding it open. Immediately she pointed at me, “I c-yose (close) da door on my boo-boo!” …
Fun With Kids – Flying Children
Want an expensive way to entertain yourself and your children, that makes for some good blog fodder? Whip out your camera, and tell your kids …
A Hospital Kind of Birthday
That’s where I got to spend my son’s 5th birthday. Alone. Birthday boy-less. In the hospital. I had just finished sewing my son’s birthday present …
My Super Hero’s 5th Birthday
Valentine’s Day 2004 I sent my husband off to war. Five-months pregnant, crying kids in tow, I waddled my way to my seemingly empty car, …
Two-Hundred Nine
(Mind you, I didn’t say 2009, like the year. I said 209.) That’s how many people voted for my entry into the Protect-A-Bed Scholarship contest. …