How to know if things are going great

As we sat down to breakfast this morning, Laylee expressed her happiness with her situation in life: “Everything is going great for me right now. My hair is turning curly, I have a loose tooth, and I brushed my teeth with my timer this morning.” Right on, sweetie.

Filed under: Honesty of Children, family fun, kid stuff, unbearable cuteness

Yesterday

Yesterday was a tough one. I sort of blogged it out over at at Parenting.com. But today is a new day. I was nicer to the kids. The fridge situation got all sorted out and the new one is lovely and spacious and if we were gonna cash in our life savings for a fridge, [...]

Filed under: around town, family fun, parenting

Meeting Maria

I stayed home from church today with a pathetic sickly Wanda. She’s got a snuffly nose, a cough, a rattle and a roll. She can’t sleep without a binky but she can’t breathe WITH a binky so we are at an impasse. There is a lot of crying and snarfling going on. I’m just getting [...]

Filed under: faith, family fun, film

Setting Family Goals

“Wanda just sat there in her swing like an INFANT and offered no insight whatsoever. She’s kind of been acting like the family freeloader lately.” [read more at Parenting.com]

Filed under: family fun, parenting

The Call of Duty

I already tweeted this and put it on Facebook but I really think it needs to go on the blog. Dan is a lover of Call of Duty and I am a lover of how well he fulfills his ultimate call of duty as a dad. This picture combining the two is priceless to me. [...]

Filed under: baby stuff, family fun, he's so fine he blows my mind, unbearable cuteness

I Plan to Become a Millionaire

This morning I was spending some sweet quality time with my squishable water-filled newborn. Sunlight was filtering in through the window of my cozy bedroom and I was sitting next to her on the bed. She looked so precious and perfect except for a bright red gash, newly carved into her pudgy cheek. “Stop scratching [...]

Filed under: baby stuff, family fun, money, save me from myself, scaring the neighbors, world domination