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 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 Humor, Miscellaneous on May 13th, 2011
I learned at a young age that claiming to be bored did not fly with my parents. “Only BORING people are bored,” my dad would remind me, whenever I made the mistake of expressing said feeling. I took my dad’s words to heart, primarily because there is not much more disagreeable to me than being [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Mar 18th, 2011
Let me preface this post with the following back story: The kids were out shopping with their dad around Thanksgiving time and Logan saw something that caught his attention and held it for months. He came home all excited to tell me about the Bigfoot toy he saw at the store. “It costs $100!” he [...]
Posted in Giveaways!, Miscellaneous on Sep 22nd, 2009
Just in case you haven’t increased your chances of winning the LeapFrog Tag Reading System bundle that I and 9 other bloggers are giving away by visiting their blogs, here’s a brief rundown of why I think these blogs are great, beginning today with the three whose contests are ending the soonest. Confessions of a [...]
Posted in Giveaways!, Guest Bloggers on Jul 2nd, 2009
The following is by today’s guest blogger, Linda Vujnov, author of Spilt Milk No Sharing! My mother is the queen of sharing. When dining together, if your meal does not appear as appetizing as hers, she will not only offer you tastes, but will trade entrees on request, unless you happened to order fish. She [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 9th, 2009
I used to get so annoyed with my mom when I was a kid for treating my youngest sister like her baby long after she was one. Mom was always fawning over her, calling her cutesie names I’d never heard her toss in my direction and letting her get away with much more than my [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 11th, 2008
Logan stayed home from school today, complaining that his “tummy hurt.” He claimed to have thrown up four times in his bed when I woke him up this morning, and even though I didn’t see much evidence, I kept him home. Thank goodness I did because shortly after the other kids left, he threw up [...]
Posted in Reflections on Nov 21st, 2008
Once upon a time, our TV only received three channels, the most watched of which was the blissfully commercial-free PBS. Since I don’t watch much TV myself, not having 100 different channels to pick from was just fine with me. Even better, my daughters had no clue who SpongeBob or other non-PBS-related characters were, and [...]
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 88ยข. 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 [...]
