You fought hard today. All day. No matter what punishment I handed out, your response was "I don't want……." Really? You don't want your punishment? I'm shocked. No matter how badly you didn't want to be punished, you still disobeyed. If I could teach you anything today, it would be this: Obedience is easier. Do the thing the first time because you ...
Motherhood
You are loved.
I'm sitting here this morning, listening to the sounds of you. All of you. All the sounds. There's laughter. There's not. There are a million little sounds that mean nothing and everything. The sound of toy strollers racing down the hall. The sound of rushing water because you're playing in the sink….again. The sound of someone filling her own cup, making me ...
31 Things I Want My Kids To Know
This October, I'm joining a bunch of bloggers in taking the Write 31 Days Challenge. Last year, I wrote 31 Days of Wisdom for Moms Like Me, a 31-day journey through the book of Proverbs. It was a month of learning things I need to know. This month, I am going to focus my writing on things my kids need to know. My posts will be written much like letters to my little ones, but I feel ...
Grace to Grow
Her math work is divided into brightly-colored sections because if she's going to have to do math, it might as well be colorful, right? Of course, she spent nearly as much time creating the pretty page as she did actually working the problems, but I can live with that. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that when I'm teaching my children, I'm teaching individually-created human beings who ...