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I’m one of those people who loves to set goals. So, every Jan. 1, I sit down and write out my goals for the year. A few weeks later, like most people, I have already started going back to my old habits and losing track of whatever goals I set. This year, I decided to…
Our family loves to doodle. The kids go through dozens of sheets of paper each day filled with drawings and doodles and cartoon characters. When their friends come over, they often all sit around drawing together. So, this weekend, we have been working on converting our basement into a bedroom for the two boys. We…
Our “baby” is just a week away from her second birthday, and every day with that girl in the house is a new adventure. You would think that after going through this stage with three others, we would know what to expect when it comes to living with a 2-year-old. Not so. This girl is…
This is the time of year that I start wearing my snow boots and winter coat inside the house, all day long. I get so cold every day when we are trying to do our school work. I turn up the heat, I drink hot drinks, but nothing seems to help. My feet are still cold!…
Yesterday, I became the mom of an 11-year-old. We had a great day celebrating our sweet, tender-hearted, super creative first born. And yet, I did have a few melancholy moments of realization that my baby is growing up. I have been trying to cope with some of the changes that come with being the mom…
We’ve had a hard week. Home schooling can test every iota of one’s character. When you spend hours and hours everyday sitting next to your kids helping them with their school work, you learn that even a person who was born from your gene pool can learn and process information in a way that is…
This week, I am celebrating my 11-year anniversary as a stay-at-home mom. This has been the best job I could ever have hoped for. However, to commemorate this momentous occasion, I also want to point out one of the perils of going to work at home. When I first started staying home more than a…
I need to interrupt this regularly-scheduled programming to let you know that tonight I was voted Mother of the Year. Well, that’s Mother of the Year of CRAZYTown where psycho moms endanger the lives of their children because they refuse to accept the reality of simple truths, such as the fact that the sun does…
As my kids have gotten older, they (naturally) have been getting in more situations in which they have to make a choice about the right way to behave. We’ve had lots of conversations lately about what they should do when other kids are encouraging them to do things they know they shouldn’t. They have been…
I had been dreading this for days. Weeks really. OK, months. As I was getting ready to leave the house, the kids asked where I was going. “To the dentist,” I replied, with a sound of trepidation in my voice. “No fair!” “You’re so lucky!” “Can I go?!” When I was a kid, we all…
