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What happens when you let your kids play with body crayons…
Is these lovely self portraits. Moments to create… Much soap and elbow grease to erase!
Charley Anne has turned 2…
and would have loved to celebrate with you! The party here was loads of fun Even without the bright shine of sun! We munched on lots of fruity treats The new bouncy toy was really neat! Wagon rides and aloha tunes The party ended way too soon! We could have hula’ed the whole day through […]
Peace at last…
after a day the tidy bowl man claimed for his own… suffice it to say I had to order replacement parts for Charley’s BROKEN crib… etc…etc… and the list goes on, I headed out for a date with myself this evening. I am THE BEST DATE EVER. I took myself to get a wax, eat […]
I don’t wanna grow up…
My conversation with Eva the other day while driving home. Eva: “Mommy, if I eat a lot, does it mean I’ll grow up to be a adult?”Me: “Um, yes honey. If you eat good food, you’ll grow up healthy and strong.”Eva: “I don’t want to eat any more food. I’ll just drink water so I […]
or we could use the tom tom…
So, tonight I sang to Evie, as requested. We keep a missal and catholic hymn book in her room, which she loves to pick random songs from for me to sing. This is especially lovely when I have no idea how the song goes and my sight reading is quite horrific after years away from […]
Blessed…
My midgets with Derby, our former cat. (LONG story.) are we. After months of agonizing and a lot of little prayers sent to St. Anthony (finder of lost things,) my Kindermusik stuff has reappeared! It seems that in the sadness and chaos that ensued after the loss of the baby, we left it at Our […]
Eva is only 5 once…
and I should enjoy it. Before I can blink, she’ll be 6, then 10, then 25, then… i can’t even think about it!After yet ANOTHER night of power struggles, angry words, punishments and overall aggravation over dinner, I am reevaluating my plan of attack. See, here is my problem. I’m viewing this dinner ISSUE as […]
television sucks my brain dry…
Actually, I think it’s my kids that do that, so that by the end of the day, all the energy I have left is the ability to use my right index finger for channel flipping and my left hand for drinking a glass of wine or eating chocolate or some other evil little snack that […]
Fighting fire with…
GARTH BROOKS!As most of you are aware, we had a heck of a fire season here. Along with many others, we were evacuated when the fires began threatening our homes. The Horno Fire came within a few miles of us and was a frightening site for several days. Leaving our home in the middle of […]