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 ...
Motherhood
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 ...
Snapshots….
of life lived in a house full of flu. Okay, in reality, the flu seems only to have hit a few of us, but if mama has the flu, the world should stop, right? Here are just a few images from the past couple of weeks and the thoughts that go with them: Y'all, I still just don't get it. Every mother in the pediatrician's office is trying to keep little hands off flu-infested things, and THIS is ...
I’m thinking….
I'm thinking. I'm thinking.... Do you remember being in high school English class, staring at a blank journal page that needed to be filled and feeling completely clueless about what you should write? "Just write something," teachers say. So, since I've been staring at my blog in much the same way lately, I've finally told myself the same thing. Writer's block. I'm pretty sure that ...