You know it's time to clean your kitchen when you find yourself trying to figure out what you'll do if someone drops by. This morning, I actually thought that if someone stopped by, we could pretend we weren't here, but then I realized that they would hear us. We're loud. So, I thought, I can tell them that we "MIGHT" have the flu. I mean, I've got four kids. At any ...
Motherhood
The nagging thoughts keeping me up at night….
Y'all, there is a missing sippy cup somewhere in my house, and I cannot find it. Serious problems, I know. But, I also know that by now that cup of milk is more than curdled so I am at the point of being torn between hoping I find it and hoping NEVER to find it. (Just being honest here so I should probably add that if I do find it, I will be strongly tempted to throw it away without ...
For the days when….
everyone thinks you're the worst mom ever...including you. Can I offer you a cup of coffee and a word of encouragement? She "hates" math. You make her do it anyway. He is jumping off the walls...and every thing else. You send him to bed. The babies climb up on the brick fireplace. You begin the long process of teaching them what "no" means. And the day only goes downhill ...
It must be time…
to take down the Christmas decorations. You see, I've been a bit behind. What with the flu, RSV, bronchitis, the stomach virus, ear infections and so on and so forth, I've just been pretending they weren't there for the most part. I mean, I had enough to clean up (stomach virus, remember?). So, this week, I've been working on pulling things down and putting them away. As I was ...