Teach Us to Number Our Days

I wanted Benjamin to keep better track of his time. So I created a visual aid and went to print it off. And then I saw all the papers I usually tape to our Wall of Achievement. The pile was getting out-of-hand, so I looked for the tape. The tape was empty, So I hunted...

Nobody Told Me that There’d Be These Things!

Just a little song to get stuck in your head this morning. 🙂 Nobody Told Me that There’d Be These Things (Sung to the tune of These Are A Few of My Favorite Things) Boogers on noses and dog poop on mittens, Scouring the kettles and healing the bitten, Toddlers...

Multitasking Has Its Limits

I was going to the bathroom, holding a fussy baby (you know you’ve been there), when my five year old barged in. “Your arms aren’t busy now. Now can you fix my Darth Vader?” Sometimes all you can do is stare. And then laugh. But I refuse to hot...

Check-out Lane Trivia Game

To keep the kids busy in the Walmart checkout lane tonight, I began asking them trivia questions. (And rewarding them with Tic Tacs.) I tried to make the questions age appropriate and engaging. Educational and interesting. To Olivia, I asked mostly geography...

My Children Can’t Hear Me

It’s been a day.  A full day of expressing frustration to my children over the fact that they Do.Not.Hear.My.Voice anymore. Your children do that, too, right?! So it had been a day like that.  Full of repeating myself a minimum of three times, and usually...