On Monday this week, I took advantage of having two crumbsnatchers recovering from the flu. Fevers were gone, but we had to stay in to get over the coughs and sniffles. So what better time to do a potty training…
Today was a fantastic day. Beyond fantastic. The sun was shining, and I woke up with the itch to go letterboxing. The Man seemed agreeable to my being gone for a long period of time today, as long as he could…
Because of the Tornado: I keep a flashlight in my shower… because chances are, my lights will be turned off. I am awoken rudely by the bedroom light with screams of “way-cup!”… She also turns off my sound machine, takes…
Juggling my summer buckets has been quite relaxing this summer. I have not done much of anything while being really busy at the same time. In the middle of yard work and preparing for a 4th of July picnic,…
The Happy Tornado has been called that since she was about 9 months old… But now that she is almost two and a half, she is more like a Tornado siren. Not always happy, always loud. Part of the problem…
I was warned in the past that May is one of the busiest times for the life of a SAHM (stay at home mom) who has school-kids. I was feeling pretty good at the first bit of May, my personal…
When I was a kid, I was painfully shy. I wanted less than anything in the world than for people to notice me, or pay any attention to me. Fly on the wall, and all that. So for shy…
This is like Murphy’s Law, the Juggling Buckets version. The chance that your crumbsnatcher will choose to draw sidewalk chalk on the front porch where it won’t wash off in the rain is indirectly proportional to the age and talent…
Hello, I am the mom of a hypochondriac. It is not a life I would have chosen. This is the Queen Bee. She is a sweet girl. Cuddly. Witty. And sensitive. Too sensitive. She is over emotional about everything. Every…
“I am going to die. It hurts, and the pain is bad. It hurts all the time, and more when I walk. You have to take me to the hospital. I think I will need a wheelchair to walk.” These…
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