Five times five equals twenty-five. For real. It totally does. Now. A few years ago, though, five times five equaled three. Sometimes seven. I'm talking about minutes. Five people doing a five-minute pick-up equals twenty-five minutes of picking up. But in the beginning, when Family Pick-Up Time was a totally new thing, five people … [Read more...]
Oooohhh, Cleaning Sounds Fun! (For, Like, 2 Seconds)
A few Saturdays ago (amazingly, BEFORE I knew Paula was coming to visit), I awakened with a bee in my bonnet. That’s an expression. There were no bees in my home, nor do I wear a bonnet to bed. We had a Saturday at home with NO other plans. I decided we were going to get something done around this place! Three things (that had been bugging me … [Read more...]
Is Intentional Living in the Big Stuff or the Little Stuff?
I mentioned on Facebook this week that I was giddy over the fact that for a few short hours, I was beating the Cookie Monster in the top ten list for my podcast category in iTunes. I said if I had a bucket list, I'd write that down just so I could cross it off. But I don't have a bucket list. So I started thinking about whether I should have … [Read more...]
Multi-Tasking – Cleaning the Kitchen and Teaching Life Lessons
Here's a big part of our parenting philosophy: We do our best to not be blatantly unfair in how we treat our children, but we rarely go out of our way to change unfair situations that happen to our kids outside of the family. Life isn't fair. Hubby and I know that it's better to deal with a situation than to complain about how unfair it … [Read more...]
Remembering Kids’ Medicine
On the morning of March 19th . . . an exciting thing happened. I gave my 9yo his last dose of an antibiotic. Exactly on time. Meaning, not one of TWENTY doses had been missed. I shared on Facebook, and you celebrated with me. Evidently, I'm not the only one who has stretched a ten-day antibiotic into sixteen days. I've … [Read more...]
Teamwork
So yesterday I spilled my Slob Guts about my personal grief over not having been the perfect mother during my kids' preschool years. Today I'm going to share how Teamwork has been going so far this year. We've been at it for one week. (Technically, we're two weeks into the year, but did anyone actually begin working on New Year's Resolutions … [Read more...]
(Lame) Excuse: “But it’s a Hassle . . . “
When my oldest was between the ages of 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 (I know because we were living in our rent house), he came to me with some exciting news. He had figured out something cool. Something that would surely be a new and exciting revelation to his mother. Because he knew, for a fact . . . that this was something I did not know. He had … [Read more...]
“I Didn’t Want to Hurt Your Feelings, Mom.”
I bought these video game chairs Christmas-before-last. A great idea, but they haven't been used the way I thought they would be. And now that my gameroom (see how I no longer call it a gameroom/office/guestroom) has the feel of a real room and purposeful furniture placement, the chairs haven't been used. They've been sitting in a … [Read more...]
Perfect Birthday Gift for an 8-10 Year Old Boy
I wish I was the mom who opened a birthday invitation and immediately wrote the date, time and location on the calendar. Also in that ideal world . . . I would remember (while out running errands the week before) to pick up a gift. A unique one. An inspired one. An economical one. Once upon a time, I did have a pretty well-stocked gift … [Read more...]
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