I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. I make meals, get snacks, get drinks, and clean dishes pretty much all day long. With three growing girls, I guess that’s to be expected. Here’s the thing though. I don’t like my kitchen. It’s smallish, and not well laid out. It’s hard to chop vegetables and I have very limited counter space. Also, it’s kind of ugly. On the surface, it looks kind of cute. When we were looking at houses, I loved the blue color and the clean white cupboards and counters, but when you use it, that changes. [...]
The Games We Play
When I was pregnant with Samantha, I had all these ideas floating around my mind about how amazing parenting was going to be. I had visions of children in white dresses and neat ribbons in their hair, running through lush green meadows chasing bubbles and laughing. These children would fall, never crying and never dirtying their clothes. I had very Mayberry type dreams about the grand life of a parent. Then she was born. And she didn’t sleep through the night and she didn’t like vegetables and she cried, sometimes for no reason. And I got some sense knocked into [...]
Bubble Bath
We’ve had some sick going around here. Samantha’s school is a petri dish. Last week, there were only 9-11 kids in the class each day out of 22. Samantha only missed Friday, but had a fever and headache Thursday night through Sunday morning. On Tuesday, Penny came home from school with a fever and general clingy-ness. She even willingly took a nap. That’s sick for sure. One thing I’m trying to teach my girls is how to be good to themselves and take care of themselves. So when they’re sick, I’ve been letting them have alone, hot bubble baths. (Usually [...]
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