I spent the beautiful morning cleaning house and doing chores, putting away the clothes of my children. The pants and socks and underwear and shirts that just keep getting bigger and bigger… There is simply no stopping them. Just like the babies, the ones that are now kids. I rinsed the same colorful, plastic dishes…
Behind door number one…
On the other side of that first door on the left there is a little girl, calling my name. She is waiting for me to rescue her and provide a snack and some neck kisses and sweet hugs. Not necessarily in that order. Her smile softens my heart on the daily and the sunshine in…
This Day
My heart parts felt a bit jumbled today. One minute they are shaken up while two kids fight over the front part of the Target cart. And both cry. And I negotiate the best I know how. We spend too much time touching every Lego box (well, Little G does anyway) and we are almost…
Sharing a Moment at Kir’s Corner
Today I am at Kir’s Corner sharing one of my Proud Mommy Moments and I’m SO honored to be posting at Kir’s place! She’s an amazing writer and one of THE sweetest people I’ve encountered on the internet to date. Her heart is SO big and loving and that’s why she’s so good at sharing. 🙂…
Different Worlds
There are people everywhere, many with different accents and strange words I do not know, flowing from their mouths. There are sights and sounds and smells and my senses are overloaded. Lights, so many lights. Food of all kinds. Authentic cheesecake, actually from New York. Nuts and hot dogs and “street meat” on every corner,…
Moments Captured – Me & K
In the morning, when I get K out of her crib, I kiss her face a bunch of times over and over and over again and call her by her nickname of the moment and hug her really tight.It seems like every time, I’m love-struck by the fact that she is mine, that I have a daughter.As…
She found a pencil
K wrote all over the tile floor in pink crayon yesterday. She’s always had access to more things at a young age than the boys ever did. We have this coloring/art table in the corner of our living room and she goes there a lot to draw (I use the term lightly). But this day…
Awesome Kid of the Week! (or Century, whatever…)
Sometimes I forget how very awesome my kids are. I just get wrapped up in the craziness of the days or weeks and I have little moments where I momentarily recognize their awesomeness in something they say or do but because we have a pretty busy household and life goes fast at age 36 and…
Do You Have a Favorite?
I was watching a daytime talk show the other day (this rarely happens, by the way…) and Kelly Ripa and her husband were on, talking about their kids and life, etc. At one point Rachel Ray asked them if they have a favorite child and they said yes but they would never tell who. But…
It Can Happen SO Fast
Even though we were in the midst of the “sickies” last weekend, I still managed to get the boys to their respective soccer games and do laundry, feed children (and eventually myself) and resume life to mostly normal. I even brought the snack for G’s game! But, and this is probably NOT news to anyone…