Posted in Giveaways! on Jun 16th, 2011
I’m betting that most women who have ever been pregnant in the United States of America have read the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting. I know it was my pregnancy bible while I was growing the girls, and I even consulted it quite often in my next two pregnancies, despite my familiarity with [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 24th, 2011
My daughters have been spending the last few days reading every post on my blog. They have never read it before, but now that they’ve started, they can’t seem to stop. Rachel’s favorite post so far is The Game Boy Addiction, one of my personal faves as well. She also liked “‘Hot’ — The New ‘Cute’?” [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Recipes on May 23rd, 2011
Andie loves to look for new recipes to make, bless her heart. She is particularly fond of Allrecipes.com, where she often goes to enter ingredients we have on hand in order to find something to whip up for supper. Tonight’s Shepherd’s Pie was a huge hit. It was comfort food at its finest. I’ve never [...]
Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on May 22nd, 2011
Screen Shutoff Day is not a new concept, but it’s one I’m going to be embracing starting the week of May 29. Initially, I wanted to take away the TV for the entire summer break and severely limit other screen time, such as computers, Leapsters and phones. Then I realized that to ban the kids [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 21st, 2011
I was going to plant my garden this weekend, but alas, the weather did not cooperate this week and it’s too muddy. Still, to celebrate the fact that I CAN start working in my garden soon, I’d like to share an essay I wrote about gardening that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor a few [...]
Posted in Humor, Miscellaneous on May 19th, 2011
There are times when I look at two of my children and wonder if they have acquired any of my genes whatsoever. They look so much like their dad’s family, I used to joke with my mother-in-law that they could easily be mistaken for her kids rather than mine. I have managed to find my [...]
