Parenting With Heart And Humor
I am thrilled to announce that I recently accepted a new position, read all about my promotion!This is the job I applied for:Executive to Supervise a Team of Micro-ManagersCandidate must possess the following qualifications:Excellent conflict negotiation and resolution skills. Prior View Post
We are just coming off a few weeks of back to back to back illnesses of varying degrees and origin. With four boys in the house there is often some type of germ, bug or other contaminant in the house. However, the past several weeks were more "interesting" and educational than I recall in recent View Post
Welcome to Club Motherhood. You have endured nine ten months of wonderful pregnancy bliss. You have glowed, expanded and grown a perfect little human being. Said human was recently expelled from your body – so it’s now “go time!” This is it! Motherhood! You are in the thick of it – and there is no View Post
I come to this space to write, to pour my heart out about things that are on my mind. Some days I write about the things that are going on right now, but some days those things are too close for comfort - so I write about things that have happened in the past. I write, because it frees up space in View Post
We love birthdays in our family. Or rather I love birthdays and have passed that trait onto to the boys - and my husband goes along for the ride. September starts our “birthday season” which ends in late January. As you can imagine, we are talking birthday wishes, birthday celebrations - all things View Post
It is 4:00am and I wake up for the 15th time since I shut the lights off at 9:00pm and put Jonah in his cosleeper. Who took my boobs and exchanged them for canon balls?! And where is my baby? He normally falls asleep in his cosleeper, and then after he wakes up to nurse the first time, I let him View Post
I was recently reminded that some milestones are downright painful to reach, even for your third and fourth children. Jonah has for the past eight weeks, since birth been within arms reach of me. I have responded to his cries, read his cues of hunger and been the only person to feed him. But... I View Post
We put so much stress on ourselves to lose the weight after we deliver our babies. I have been down this road a few times already, four to be exact. I know from experience that I get big - really big - but I also lose the weight (or most of it) rather easily. Normally my measure of success is “when View Post
Spring is around the corner and therefore it is time to nurture the plants growing around the house. The best way to take care of the little green sprouts in your life is to give them a larger pot with fresh soil and fertilizer. Gently remove the plant from its current pot, shake off the old dirt, View Post
Today started off like most days lately, with a long list of things on my “to do” list. We are closing on a new house next week and then moving shortly thereafter. So far, I have three boxes packed and ready to go - three small boxes... The mere thought makes me laugh. View Post
Dear Jansen,Congratulations on your promotion to “youngest in the middle”. You have worn this badge of honor with great pride now for two weeks. You have truly managed to assert yourself, and proven to us that you are a boy with a very strong will and character.Jansen, you will always be my View Post
It was a very normal Sunday evening at our house. The entire family was gathered around the dinner table, eating, talking about what had been “our favorite part of the day” and in general just being the vision of the typical American family in Any Town, USA. View Post
Here we are, at the cusp of a new year. Many are tempted to subscribe to the old adage “out with the old and in with the new”. But I am thankful for “the old” and all the wonderful events 2013 put in place for our family. I feel that this past year was the start of so many incredible happenings, View Post
It is a quiet Saturday evening in our house. All the kids (even my husband) fell asleep early. I am not quite used to this tranquility and peacefulness, but I am rather enjoying it - for now. As I am sitting here, laptop in my lap, a sleeping toddler to my left and a sleeping husband to my left, I View Post