I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
Recently I’ve started thinking that perhaps we put too much stress on decisions that we think are important. Decisions like whether to move. Whether to take a job. Whether to continue going to school. Because, really, as long as we honor God with our actions, does it matter whether we do it in Indiana or [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I wrote down the name of everyone who got the answer correct on the Mountain Game and put them in one of our smaller stacking boxes. And then gave the box to Olivia with instructions to pull one out. This was her first response: This was her second: Note the shift from bewilderment to defiance. [...]
Filed under: Giveaway, The Levi, The Olivia on March 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
He was playing with his toys in the corner of the room the last time my heavy eyes slid closed. The next time they jerked open was when I realized whatever dream I was enjoying should not have included such wet noises. Painfully ripped from blissful unconsciousness, I saw my eight-month old standing inches from [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Funnies, The Levi, The News on March 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s Josh’s spring break. But as we’re headed to Hawaii in two weeks (EEEK!), he’s working through this week and taking that one off instead. It’s also BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS INCREDIBLE out. So, for lunch today, we headed out to see the Daddy. And the Mountain. But we’ll get to that later. For now, just enjoy [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on March 16th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
(Keep in mind that we live in the plains of Indiana.) Benjamin: Tomorrow we get to see the mountain! Me: Mountain? What mountain? Benjamin: Tomorrow, we are going to go to Daddy’s work and see the mountain! Me: There’s a mountain at Daddy’s work? Benjamin: YES! And we are going to see it! Tomorrow! Me: [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 12th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Today, for the first time since Levi bounded out of the newborn-I-sleep-all-the-time-and-anywhere-you-put-me phase, I have felt like I know what I’m doing with my day. I’m not just scrambling around trying to accomplish something, (or giving up and nursing all day on the couch while watching Hulu), I actually have a plan. A plan I’ve [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Mommy on March 5th, 2010 | 15 Comments »
We’ve implemented a Quarter Jar to compliment our Marble Jar. The Marble Jar is for Random Acts of Kindness as well as a random boost for everyday obedience. When the jar is full, we make frosted sugar cookies. (I know, reward them with food and they’ll be on the Biggest Loser someday. Oh well.) The [...]
Filed under: Motherhood on March 4th, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Levi, in case you couldn’t tell by the title of this post, gets into everything. He’s been crawling since Christmas. He’s been pulling himself up ever since he was able to crawl over to a worthy piece of furniture. Or pant leg. Or unworthy piece of furniture which collapses, falls, or flips under his 20 [...]
Filed under: The Levi on March 2nd, 2010 | 5 Comments »
