My boys favorite day of the week is house cleaning day. Not because they help clean but because I take all the chairs from around the dinning room table and I put them on the rug in the sitting room and I let them built forts. I place the chairs for them and then they get out the blankets and…
Have you seen that show? Well we watched it last week and now big brother is convinced that he will be on the coming season’s show. He was completely inspired what his peers were cooking and since has been asking me to let him help in the kitchen. I am going to be the first to admit that I am…
Our daddy has been working a lot and has been fighting a pretty nasty bug as well so when he hasn’t been gone for work he has been home trying to recuperate. Today we went to IHOP for breakfast and then we headed to the park for some family time. Big brother tried his hand at the skate park and…
“The joy of reading with our children doesn’t stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.” ― Paul Kropp, How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life Little brother loves books. He can often be found with a pile of books around him. Recently he has been bringing his books out to the front yard as brothers…
With big brother at school and we still had our summer pool passes good through the end of the month little brothers and I headed to the pool. Two hours of entertainment for brothers was great. Middle brother spent most of his time diving for torpedoes and had a blast. Little brother picked up on the whole under water coolness…
Moments, that is all I have. Microscopic, fleeting moments are what makes up my life. Am I stopping to remember them? How many moments of my life have my eyes been wide open, but I have been rushing, racing, sleeping right through? How many of the popsicle days, run, twirl, and skip days, dangling bare feet days have I seen…
Saturday morning I got a text from my neighbor asking if I was going to go to the Lowe’s building workshop, I had totally forgotten about it since we should have had soccer but because of weather that was canceled. So I loaded the boys up and we headed over there. Really what is better than a morning of banging…
I am sure it comes as no surprise that I love taking pictures. It is a passion of mine that has developed over the years. I remember when I got my first camera that could capture some of the pictures that I see through my eyes and each shot was treasured. Snapping pictures is something that has been demonstrated in…
Big brother lost his very first tooth tonight! After showers I was brushing his teeth and noticed that his tooth was a little loose. I told him that it might fall out in a day or two. Well, I guess he took that on as a challenge. As we were watching Duck Dynasty I hear him shout from his chair,…