A family adventure: the corn maze
Pin itMy kids crack me up. My kids also make me cry. I am in a constant state of overwhelm when it comes to my offspring… the greatest of joys and the deepest of frustrations. Our outing to a local corn maze on Saturday was an extended time of joy for me as a mom. [...]
An excerpt:
Pin itThis is “basically” what I heard from my 9 year-old son All. The. Way. to church this morning. It’s a 20 minute drive… This is only a brief excerpt… because I love you. Talk chatterchatter talk chatterchatter snot andthen BLAM! KAPOW! SCHPEW!SCHPEW!SCHPEW!!! talk chatterchatter talktalktalk andandand andandthenthenthen talk chatterchatter talk BOOM! BAM! ZOINK!!! SSSSCHOWWWW!!! andthensnot talk chatterchatter talk poop andthenandand [...]
So impressionable.
Pin itThe following are my son’s words after watching me make mashed potatoes from a bag of powdered spuds. His words capture the quick and amazing transformation: Oh! That’s helpful! “Amen!” To that I say, “AMEN! All hail the powdered spud!” ******************** Keep up-to-date on the insane, the insightful, and the whatever… Click here and [...]
If my son had any concept of time
Pin itI’d be really mad. But he doesn’t, so I am cutting him a whole lotta slack lately. When he expresses his observations about “the years of old”, he has no idea he is TOTALLY callin’ his mutha an Old Lady. He sees black and white photos and thinks they are pictures of the/my old [...]
It's been nearly 20 years…
Pin itsince I turned 16. Around here, we are gearing up for a big celebration of that anniversary at the end of October. And all this planning to celebrate an event that happened 20 years ago has me feeling a bit nostalgic. As I was cleaning the basement today, I came across my old high [...]
Parents of the Year?
Pin itOne evening recently, Paul and I shared a beer over dinner. Our 9 year old son, Joel, asked when he’d be able to have a beer. That’s easy. I told him, “When you’re 21.” He said, “That’s like in 12 years!” He’s so good with math. Because I have a disconnected connector in my [...]
Confessions of a new soccer mom.
Pin itOooh. That sounds so, so… 90210 (with Brenda and Kelly and Brandon and Dillon, not that new-fangled show – I am ALL about “old school”)… but back to soccer. I am writing about a new way of life for me, for my family. I am laying it all out, like a well-prepared student does [...]
The first day of school – pictures and all!
Pin itWhew. I made it. For some reason, sending my daughter off to 1st grade – a FULL day of school was terribly hard. It hurt. I ached. I cried. I felt silly. My son was headed to third, the wee one was tearing it up at preschool. With those two – we hugged and [...]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Pin itIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, [...]
My boy.
Pin it I love you… So. Much. I love you even though 9 years ago today I experienced he greatest amount of physical pain I will ever experience in my entire life… but that’s a whole other story that I will have to tell you when you are much older… Like when you are 16 and [...]
