Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on Jan 17th, 2012
I’m not much of a nail biter myself. My bad habit as a kid was sucking my thumb, which I did every night until, at the ripe old age of 9, I became cognizant that it was very uncool and infantile to be sucking one’s thumb in order to get to sleep. I weaned myself [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 2nd, 2011
The other day, Logan brought home a journal he made at school. I had to laugh at the cover, where Logan had spelled his middle name, as he does with every word he doesn’t know how to spell, phonetically. No comment on the misspelled last name.(He and I have been over it many times.) As [...]
Posted in Firsts, Miscellaneous on Oct 4th, 2011
Cody reminds me a lot of myself as a child. He loves to read, gets a little thrill from anything remotely historical, has trouble getting to sleep due to his night-owl tendencies and he’s highly sensitive to unpleasant situations. All of these factors came crashing together last night when Cody flung the door to my [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Sep 10th, 2011
There are many reasons why I’m actually happy that summer vacation is over. This is new for me, as typically I adore having my kids home all summer. Perhaps the biggest relief? The cessation of hearing my name called so often each and every day that I began to tire of the sound of it [...]
Posted in Brags, Miscellaneous on Aug 19th, 2011
The kids and I went shopping for school supplies on Tuesday. They were over-tired to begin with, as I had just picked them up from a 3-day stay with their aunt and uncle where bedtimes were much later than normal. Logan, especially, was whiny, as he tends to be when he hasn’t gotten enough sleep. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Aug 7th, 2011
I haven’t blogged for a reeeaaalllllyyyy long time. Which, I guess, duh, you’ve probably noticed, if you’re a regular reader. My dear friend, Amy, a freelance writer who is currently fighting her second battle with breast cancer and has a gorgeously-written blog on the subject, It’s in the Genes, once told me that she gets [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 29th, 2011
My boys are staying at their cousins’ house for a few days. To be honest, the girls and I are pretty thrilled to have a break. Our boys are loud, busy and energetic, as little guys tend to be. I’m betting by the time they get home Tuesday night though, all three of us will [...]
Posted in Humor, Miscellaneous on May 28th, 2011
I sent the boys outside to play catch today for the first time, an activity I plan on making a daily habit starting next week. Unfortunately, the only ball we have is a hard baseball that I bought last week for Cody to practice with, since he just started playing baseball this spring. After about [...]
Posted in Firsts, Miscellaneous on May 27th, 2011
So today the girls had one of their friends over for the afternoon. Why is this yet another of many upcoming firsts? Because their friend is a 14-year-old boy. J, as I’m going to call him (he’s an avid reader of my blog and I told him I’d use a pseudonym — even though he [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 25th, 2011
My daughters will be 13 next month. As promised, I will be setting up Facebook accounts for them very soon. I don’t know why, but this freaks me out. I guess I’ve heard enough horror stories about Facebook that it makes me wary. Of what? I’m not sure. My worry has no name or face [...]
