October « 2007 « Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

Parenting Away From Home

For the last two weeks the Jaws attacks music has been droning in the background of my brain. Dun nuh dun nuh dun nuh dun nuh… This Thursday will find me driving off for a 4 day trip to grandma’s house, just me and three kids. Duh nuh, duh nuh. The last time such a [...]

Toileting Talk

***Warning if talk of bathroom matters offends you at all, you should skip this post and just click straight over to oo and ahh at pictures of Levi***

Dear Tessa,

Do you remember when we went to the fair and the ride operator would ask you to remain seated until the ride came to a full [...]

Middle School Woes, Bullies and Birth Control?

I remember middle school as the most turbulent chunk of my public schooling. Who ever came up with the idea to take all the kids wobbling on the cusp of hormonal overload and caging them up on the same campus, must truly have a sadistic streak. 6-8 grade is a time where you are too [...]

And she attendth preschool and for me, it was meh.

Tessa started preschool yesterday and the rigorous morning routine for two kids with two different destinations with inflexible drop off times within 20 minutes of each other is whooping my tush. I had grand ideas about CLEANING! and NAPPING! while Tessa was LEARNING! under the watchful 4 teachers per 1 kid gaze of her [...]

Be thankful I edited this

Levi has been a busy little boy, acquiring new skills faster then I can keep up. This weekend, Levi mastered the art of sitting up on his own, he has also started crawling. Of course, he does not like to admit that he is crawling so you have to leave the room, return and then [...]