So, this week, I decided to participate in the Thursday night #fmfparty on Twitter. Crazy! I learned two things: I don’t think or read fast enough to follow it, and five minutes goes really fast when you’re falling asleep. (So…short post follows.) Five Minute Friday is a chance to write for five minutes flat and [...]
Five Minute Friday: Comfort
May 10, 2013 by 8 Comments
It’s Friday, y’all. Five Minute Friday. This week, Lisa-Jo’s writing about “comfort,” and I thought I’d join in. Visit her site to participate! This Mother’s Day, I will sit in a church service with two squirming girls, little miracles who daily remind me of God’s grace and his goodness. Beside them will be an [...]
Five Minute Friday: Brave
May 3, 2013 by 8 Comments
Today’s Five Minute Friday topic is “Brave.” Visit Lisa-Jo’s site and join in! Even if you’re like me and your five minutes only produces two paragraphs. And a whole lot of fragments. Because every needs me. Now. Happy Friday, y’all! He dives headfirst into everything. So brave it scares me. Fearless and fast…that’s [...]
So, it’s Thursday…
April 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
and two of my kids are recovering from a viral throat infection which caused Boo’s temperature to soar over 104. He shivered so hard the bed shook with him. He was feeling better yesterday which really just means he had the energy to whine. He and his little sister. Sister #3 joined in for the [...]
Five-Minute Friday: Here
April 12, 2013 by 6 Comments
Five Minute Friday. Each week on Lisa-Jo’s blog, people gather to write for five minutes…no editing, just writing. Words flowing freely. And then, they share those words and encourage each other. This weeks’ topic? Here. Here goes: Friday morning and the kids are up early despite having one in the emergency room [...]
Monday morning at our house….
April 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A little boy, surrounded by plastic dinosaurs, watching a dinosaur documentary and trying desperately to keep his toys from being taken by a little sister in a pink walker who…. Plays bumper cars down the hall with her sister all day. They bump and back and laugh and turn around and bump into each other [...]
Monday morning of Easter week and this is what I’m thinking….
March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Y’all, I do not like needles or blood or pain, really. They make my elbows hurt. (Strange story, I know, but it’s very true!) So, pregnancy has always been a bit of a challenge for me. During my first pregnancy, I spent more time in L&D getting fluids and terbutaline than I like to remember, [...]
Sometimes it feels like….
March 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
My life is one big, embarrassing blog post. Like when: I drive away from Wal-Mart with the back-end of my minivan still up. And then… I have to rearrange the stroller in the middle of traffic, and it JUST WON’T FIT. Or when… I decide we’re getting rid of pull-ups on the very day [...]
Having a “Quiet Time” in a LOUD house….
March 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
What my “quiet time” usually looks like: (Photo Source) What my “quiet time” sometimes sounds like: (Photo Source) Every now and then, I’m the one whining. When I’m not, I try to just push through anyway. Distracted discipline still counts, right? It’s one of the most challenging things about being home with the kids…getting any [...]
Keep it simple, Get it done.
March 18, 2013 by 1 Comment
That seems to be my theme these days. With a three-year old and two almost toddling babes, things are getting crazy around here. And some days, just getting everyone loaded in the car counts as success, even when I forget where we were going in the first place. So, I’ve kind of had to lower [...]
