My oldest asked about Hanukkah yesterday, and just like anything else, I answered her honestly that it was a holiday kind of like Christmas that was celebrated by people whose religion is Judaism . She said, oh. Like Jews? And I said, yes, Jews. Simple enough. [Peg Plus Cat on PBS brought it up]… she … [Read more…]
We were walking across a parking lot yesterday when I randomly said ‘uh oh spaghetti-o’… to which my 4 year old replied ‘mom, what’s a spaghetti-o?’ I was flabbergasted, laughing, and a touch proud all at the same time. [It brings to total recall when my then 2 year old (now 7 and totally aware) … [Read more…]
Please don’t comb her hair with a teddy bear graham. *sigh*
-Baby spraying herself in the face with a loaded nipple because she decides to let go, turn her face and cram her hand down on it.. way to go kid! -Continually calling each kid by the wrong name. -Trying to decide what color the baby’s hair is. -The older kids going ‘AWWWWW’ ALL.THE.TIME. -The toddler … [Read more…]
I guess she’s not a baby anymore! Happy Birthday Casey!
I’ll be honest, the last nearly 2 weeks of posts are back-dates. I was just too busy and the baby too ready to eat to get to the computer in time to blog every day, but I did end up with a post for every day, and they ARE real posts! It just took me … [Read more…]
It’s exhausting. It’s tiring. Those are 2 separate things. One has more to do with maintaining your previous schedule along with all the other new responsibilities and the other is just taking care of a newborn, you know? Triage. The whole day is triage. From getting up and the 2 of us tag team-ing … [Read more…]
It’s hard, it really is, to give everyone what they need. Every time you try and take care of one, 2 of the others lose their minds. I kid you not, it’s insane. But we love it. We put up the little kid’s ‘Little People’ Nativity Scene and they’ve been playing with that today. … [Read more…]
We got this in the mail. How excited am I? In case it’s hard to read, it means that we were able for the first time in FOUR tries, to donate cord blood (aka stem cells) to our regional bank. That means if there was enough, it could be banked for another person in case … [Read more…]
Happy Thanksgiving!! Well it ended up being a really odd day, today. The baby slept basically all night. Yeah! I know, random thing to be thankful for, but we got a ton of rest, which means my husband ended up with a sore back and headache… and guess who cooked 99% of Thanksgiving dinner? Yup, … [Read more…]