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.
Benjamin wanted to play the Clickstart game we had brought over on our last trip to the house. I went to hook it up only to find we had left the power cord behind. I explained all this to him, but he still proceeded with, “But I *waaaaannnnnt* to play it!” So I decided to [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Benjamin on August 12th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Levi is such a tactile little boy. He mushes his food. He tears paper. He eats dirt. And sand. And mulch. He pushes and shoves and bites and hits and takes what he wants. He spends half his day in time out. He’s definitely action-oriented. He’s a smart thing, he really is. He learned to [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Levi on July 22nd, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Sometimes it seems I only post the bad parts of my day. The melodramaticness of this morning passed rather quickly after I posted about it. We went inside. Benjamin put his hangers in his shirts and then whined about going outside, which I told him was out of the question. I put all of 30 [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Mommy on March 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
Like when I tell my 5yo to look at the overcast covering of clouds and she says, “I do not see any clouds.” I give up. When my 3yo says he’d rather sit on the living room floor staring at the wall than put hangers in shirts so he can come join us outside. I [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Mommy on March 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes my kids do things that just make me want to cry. This afternoon, for example, Benjamin (who is almost four) threw my kitchen timer on the floor. I didn’t see the first throw; I figured someone had simply dropped something. I was curious when I heard the second throw. I came in just in [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Benjamin, The Mommy on March 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
You’re cleaning up breakfast dishes in relative peace and quiet when all of a sudden, three things happen, all at once. 1) You’ve got to poop. 2) The baby runs past you with a very saggy, very stinky, very messy diaper. 3) The older two break out in a no holds bar drag ‘em down, [...]
Filed under: Motherhood on February 22nd, 2011 | 8 Comments »
This is the stuff Christmas movies are made of. We woke up to 2/3 of our children cuddling us in bed. The third joined eventually (she’s a late sleeper). Looking out the window, we were excited to see a winter wonderland awaiting. We made our way to the kitchen and listened to Christmas music while [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Levi on December 4th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Josh and I were having a conversation in the car. It was either yesterday or the day before. Or the day before that. The days tend to blur together. Anyway, we were talking. I had some point I was trying to get across. Meanwhile, in the back, Benjamin was chorusing, “Mommy. Mommy. Moooooooommy. Mommy!” I [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Benjamin, The Funnies, The Mommy on August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know exactly when my life changed. I don’t know when I lost control. When the stress started mounting. When I started yelling more. Loving less. I woke up one morning and didn’t like my life anymore. The children were fighting, screaming, crying, clinging, smothering. I couldn’t demand obedience. Not even if I screamed. [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The God on July 8th, 2010 | 13 Comments »
(Benjamin comes out in jeans on a day where the high is over 80 degrees) Me: Benjamin, it’s too hot for jeans, go put shorts on. Benjamin: No! Me: Yes! It’s too hot for jeans! You need shorts! Benjamin: No! Me: (thinking: I am NOT washing those jeans AND shorts when he realizes how hot [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Benjamin, The Mommy on June 17th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
