idk if I already posted about this... but I wanted to make sure I did before she stops doing it and we all forget ( Read more... )

I'm going to try venting here to see if it will make me feel better about my weekend. I've become some sort of a homebody since quitting starbucks and it's bothering me. I used to leave the house absolutely every day, no matter what. Now I think it's a huge blessing if I have a day to just clean my house, read, play with my kids and do whatever I ( Read more... )

I have been reading this silly old prayer book I found when we moved. It's called the "God Minute." There is a short prayer (it's supposed to be 1 minute) for every day. Idk how long we've had it. There are a lot of thees and thous and I was about to give up on it. But then I read today's and was kinda astounded when I started crying. I had a kinda ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of implementing a rewards system with Lavinia. I feel as though I need reasons to be able to say "no" to her. As it is she kinda runs the house. She paints when she wants to, we go on walks when she wants to, to the park... She has to earn watching movies and stuff, but even then I'm uncomfortable with the amount of movies she earns. ( Read more... )

I always knew Sunshine liked to bite the heads off of Lego men... but up until today I hadn't ever found anything interesting in a diaper ( Read more... )

2 1/2 and 17 months has got to be some sort of explosive combination or something. Like mixing bleach and ammonia... nerve gas. I'd make a joke about how much my kids get on my nerves, but my husband might divorce me for a pun like that ( Read more... )

I don't feel like writing in paragraphs right now. how about bullet-points of my last few weeks ( Read more... )

Lavinia started out drawing like a normal toddler: circle, dot eyes, line mouth, line arms and legs and then one long piece of hair, but she just changed. Now when she draws she always draws the eyes first and has to stop and tell me about them after she has done them ( Read more... )

In general, I encourage the kids to ask questions...

but Lavinia just entered the "why?" stage.

I feel like dying. How many times can I answer that question in one day without losing it? I mean really. Who invented the baby stage?

and why?

I guess I feel really out of touch with myself. Not that when I blogged all the time I was more sane-- way not--- but I don't really know how to deal with my new life yet. How do I just go about being what I've always wanted to be? Maybe it's so hard because I never knew THIS is what I wanted to be. I thought I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, ( Read more... )