Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous on May 4th, 2010
WHAT I WANT THAT I’LL NEVER ACTUALLY BUY MYSELF: A toothpaste dispenser. Toothpaste is the biggest thorn in my side these days. My boys manage to smear it all over the sink, on the floor, the door, themselves and in the medicine cabinet. Apparently they have no clue how to put the lid back on [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 7th, 2010
My mom learned from her mom that kids should learn not to touch breakable objects. Parents should leave everything within a curious toddler’s reach so that he can be taught that touching these things is a no-no. This is how she raised me and my sisters, ostensibly with good results. I presume that we were [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Aug 31st, 2009
Sometimes people ask me how I do everything. Ha! As if I do everything. I’m so incredibly far from being on top of it all, which anyone who knows me in real life would completely and totally vouch for. Case in point: My floor is vacuumed, but my dishwasher is full of clean dishes while [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Aug 20th, 2009
I know I mention my friend Meagan a lot, but she’s just so cool and inspiring. Not only is she the founder of Larger Families, a blog I write for occasionally, she also started a new blog recently called The Happiest Mom, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading whenever it lands in my inbox. Her [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 3rd, 2008
I’m very excited to announce that I’m also going to be blogging occasionally on Larger Families. It’s a site “dedicated to parents raising the modern larger family! We strive to be a source of ideas, resources, entertainment and inspiration by and for moms with more than the ‘average’ number of kids,” started by one of [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 26th, 2008
The tooth fairy at our house should be fired. To say that she’s incompetent is really too kind. The following conversation has played out at our house many times: “Mom, look! My tooth finally came out!” one of my twin daughters says. “Better put it under your pillow before you forget,” I say. Her excitement [...]
Posted in Lessons on Nov 19th, 2008
Yesterday I sort of shot myself in the foot. We were at the store and Logan had $1 to spend. He found a purple plastic recorder for 88¢. I encouraged him to get it because he’s always using his sisters’ recorders, which makes them very angry. They don’t want his germy little mouth anywhere near [...]
Posted in Eye-openers on Nov 12th, 2008
Today Cody saw a picture of Santa. “Is Santa wearing a costume?” he asked me. “Yes,” I said. “Then Santa’s a FAKE,” he spit. “Why do you say that?” I said, startled by this conclusion. “Because we only wear costumes on Halloween. That means that Santa isn’t real if he wears a costume.” Nothing I [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 6th, 2008
We had our first snow today, forecasted to turn into a full-fledged blizzard. Logan went outside for a while as the flakes started falling, and when he came back in, I asked him if the snow was coming down hard. “It’s coming down really fast, so it’s like a miracle,” he told me seriously, in the [...]
Posted in Reflections on Oct 8th, 2008
You’re inexplicably thrilled beyond measure with the bargain deal you got on four huge bags stuffed with clothes at Kmart. I never thought about this much, despite the many bargains I’ve discovered as a parent, until about a month ago when I arrived at the check-out stand with my overflowing cart. The check-out girl was [...]
