Five Minute Friday: Song

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

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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

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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…

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 [...]

Monday morning at our house….

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 [...]

Sometimes it feels like….

  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….

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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.

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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 [...]

So….

It’s about sixty degrees outside. Each of my small ones decided to take a different nap time today.  When’s mine? Daffodils are blooming.  And, my little ones keep picking them to bring them in for me…which leads to a bit of a problem.  Outside, they are beautiful.  Inside, they give me headaches and make me [...]

The language of little ones….

I may have posted before about some of the precious things my oldest used to say…how she was afraid of “goats and bats” at Halloween…or that she used to use the “Moat and the Troll” to change television channels, but it’s been a while since we’ve had the fun of learning language with a little [...]