I have heard mothers of babies and young children ask this question before. I have asked it myself so. many. times. Will I really miss this? When you are smack dab in the middle of the hardest mothering moments you wonder. Women who’s children have grown up tell us this. We will miss this. They […]
I’ve talked about it before, but I’m back to it. I’ve been thinking lately about my kids’ mistakes. As a parent you want to protect your kids, to help them along as much as possible. But I am finding that fixing their every mistake is only hurting them in the end. My job as a […]
I got some great replies to my post from the other day about fixing our kids mistakes. Thanks for that! Just this morning I had a situation come up where I had to decide…to fix or not to fix. Today, I chose to fix the mistake. I thought it would be good to talk about […]
Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! Today I’m going to share my five favorite bloggers with you! As a blogger I really appreciate the “art” of […]
My boys’ new favorite show is Survivorman on the Discovery channel. We are generally pretty picky about what we let our boys watch. We don’t watch Spongebob. We don’t watch those dumb teenager comedies. I just don’t feel like my young boys need to get caught up in shows about boyfriends and girlfriends and all that drama. […]
Charlie put on jeans and a button up shirt for picture day on his own. Like, he decided to wear it. Yes, this is a monumental moment. Since this day years ago, what Charlie wears has always been one of those parenting struggles I avoid at all cost. He came down the stairs and I […]
We are a military family. It is fairly new to us. Even though many of our family members have been in the military, Matt just joined about three (or four? is it bad I can’t remember?) years ago. So it’s new to us on the level where it affects our every day life. The longest […]
We have had a bit of a problem over the summer with the boys fighting in the van. Anytime we drive anywhere, there is a fight. We have rearranged seats, had consequences, and I have pulled over more times than I care to remember. So when the first two mornings back to school consisted of […]
Almost fourteen years ago, when Matt and I started our lives together, he worked at the mall. It was a good position in a sports store. Sometimes we think back to those days and wonder how we made it though. Once we had our first son, things changed. Matt decided it was time to go […]
The Middle Child Syndrome. It’s the thing that has middle children everywhere wondering about their place in the world. I was a middle child but I was also the only girl so I think that cancels it out. Our middle child is Chase. He is eight years old. He is the most relaxed and easy […]