According to Tommy’s therapist, children need to learn two skills in order to be successful. They must learn delayed gratification and to do things they don’t want to do. Is it really that simple? I just don’t think so. The wealthiest, most powerful people in our country consider themselves above cleaning up after themselves and […]
Looks like the tooth fairy will be visiting Noah tonight. The tooth fairy leaves one dollar coins at our house. They are hard for the fairy to find and even harder for the children to spend. “It’s too cool to spend.” Lucky for the tooth fairy, the post office stamp machines give Susan B. Anthony […]
On the first night of intestinal plague 2006, Evan barfed in the area between Doug and I’s pillows. We wiped, scrubbed and covered the area with a towel. Then we moved our heads to the foot of the bed and put our feet on the towel covered wet areas. Poor Molly got relocated to the […]
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Amy and Noah seem better, but Evan is headed to the pediatrician today. The house is a disaster, the sheets need to be washed yet again and the clean police will be here tomorrow morning. I am not a happy camper.
Now Evan has joined the sickie club.
The first down was Noah. Amy followed within the hour.
“Stop putting playdoh in your brother’s ear.”
I can count on one hand the number of times I have been in the mall this year. Yesterday was one of those times. In the few spare minutes before I had to pick Sarah and her friend up from the movies, I rushed in to visit a store that has captured Sarah’s attention. While […]
Yes, we checked Sarah out early so she could go ice skating on Market Square for her friend’s birthday.