Tweet I saw the scene playing out in the family room. I kept to my business in the dining room while I listened to Astrid speak to her sisters. I kept my hands busy, my eyes diverted, but my ears were very busy listening and my mind was spinning, hoping that no one would seek…
Tweet Astrid knows most of the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song. In fact she was up from 2am until 4am last night singing Trouble, Stay Stay Stay and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Sometimes the three songs became one long song of mixed-up lyrics, but that’s okay as the messages of…
Tweet The girls have been playing school a lot lately. Eloise shuts her bedroom door but I can still hear them talking quietly inside. Eloise has the big desk because she is the teacher and she has two little boxes set upon the floor that Esther and Astrid sit at and do their work. …
Tweet I wrote a post last week about how we should all just take a little more time with the happy. How we need to think carefully about our online footprints, to be gentler with ourselves as we travel this parenting road, and yet to always try to make our kids proud. I loved your…
Tweet Pssst… I have a secret to tell you. If you have older kids and their younger sibling is having a birthday soon….. DO NOT LET THEM HELP PLAN THE PARTY. I happen to ask them what Astrid would like for her birthday….and they casually mentioned that she would love a Pillow Racer…
Tweet ***** I had to work yesterday, and what I do for work involves doing nothing but focusing on this work from 4am until midnight on that day I work. I work six of these days each year. Yesterday was one of those days – and by doing nothing but this work for that…
Tweet I haven’t done a Wednesday photo post in awhile. But I took the girls out for pictures last week. There may have been a Dairy Queen treat as a bribe. Maybe.Okay for sure. For me. It’s so strange this year to have a warm March and April. To have the trees blooming so early….
Tweet The big girls went back to school today. It was a happy day until I realized how much Astrid counts on her big sisters to play with her. They play ring-around-the-rosie and hours of Candy Land. They play Little People farm and baby dolls. They sit and read to her and play dress-up….
Tweet Daily. No hourly my kids do things that make me go “OH YES, this is why you go to the G&T school! You are so brilliant my perfect, smart and amazing kids!” For example, just last week as I was cooking dinner my kids came into the kitchen to get a glass of…
Tweet In the afternoon of November 1, 2011 and victim was either in the basement doing laundry, upstairs putting away laundry, in the bathroom hiding from her children, or perhaps on twitter. No matter what the victim was doing – during this brief period of time – the three young children of the victim were…
Tweet Eloise asked for her own room last year. Last year she also started having sleepovers more. Turns out ALL of her friends have their own room. Turns out ALL of her friends also ONLY have brothers. When Eloise has a sleepover here(which is so far rare..because I’m mean) we just kick Esther out into…
Tweet I’m blogging tonight and am very short on time. It’s busy here. Work has started. I have very few free moments. Working nearly full-time from home with three kids at home has it’s challenges. Even with amazing kids. I laugh on the phone as I talk to customers and bosses as my kids scream…
Tweet Dear Astrid, Two. Just yesterday as I listened to you scream again – but this time about which show you wanted to watch before nap, which resulted in no show because I am mean like that – I tried to remind myself what a true miracle you are. Because frankly, you are difficult. And…
Tweet More wordless/wordful Wednesday and beautiful pictures at SevenClownCircus and Parenting for Dummies…
Tweet It starts innocently enough. “Hey Eloise, grab a diaper for me.” “Eloise hon, will you play with the baby for a few minutes while I cook dinner.” “Sweetie, your baby sister is crying, can you sing and or just talk to her for a sec?” Eloise, just feed her a few spoonfuls while I…
Tweet I love when my 3 babies take baths together. They will probably continue doing it until I point out the obvious to the big girls… ..that it is very likely they are swimming in baby pee.
Tweet This is love. Love is… Sisters… Who insist on putting on their suits and getting in the water in their baby sister’s itty bitty baby pool with her. Even when they are too big. Even after she pees in the water. This is love. Sisters. Linking up today with Angie at Wordful Wednesday… ]…
