If your kiddo never makes a mess, don't read. If you have never had body fluids all over you at some random time with a child giggling, don't read. If you are like me, read, laugh, and take a sigh as you think, “thankful that wasn't me today.” Laughter is good medicine. [...]
Thea’s Counting March 9, 2024 “Listen mom!” Yells Thea, “listen Christina!” She excitedly counts down from 20. She’s been doing that for a while, but today had both of us in the living room when she was showing off. She had just read a picture book to Laud and spelled [...]
Read Me A Story! February 21, 2020 One of the things I like best in the whole world is to read books. Aloud. To children. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading personally too, but there is just something so amazing about getting to play all characters in a book [...]
September 4, 2019 Jaquline the Confident I watched my little girl exude confidence for the first time in public. At our gymnastics show on Mother’s Day, my Jaquline performed her practiced routine with a cloud of confidence I’ve never seen in her before. She LOVES gymnastics. She feels beautiful and [...]
August 8, 2019 Study and Playtime Your bed. A place of rest. Calm. Peace. Unless you are a mom! I got the baby all ready, got myself all ready, even get Lucas ready for his bed! Lay down and *boom* here come the troops! Lucas does an aerial front flip [...]
May 2, 2019 The Big Boy Bed The girls shifted their beds around so that the Playroom is now the sleeping quarters for Kimberly, Jaquline, and Jillian and the Barracks is sleeping quarters for Christina, Becky, and Primrose. This shift was so that the barbies, legos, and small toys like [...]
How eight months of one system taught the girls how to keep a neater barracks! [...]