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My life often feels like a comedy, and my kids say some hilarious stuff.  I was acutely aware of that due to a childhood full of babysitting, but it’s even funnier now that my own kids are trying to put my adult words into context in conversation…which clearly takes a detour most of the time. […]

“Uh, Ohhhhhhhhhhh…”

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“You know what I mean jellybean,” I say to Bri a few weeks ago. Immediately, she smirkly replies, “I know we’re very OUT jellybeans, Mom.” I spend so much time trying to extract the positive from every situation that I sometimes neglect to see that I’m completely out.  Mom’s aren’t unlike their kids, in a […]

Jellybeans

Parenting

“Mom,” says my oldest, Brianne….”IT’S going to be LO LO’S VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!” (Not sure why she adds the word ‘very’ to every phrase…but it’s too cute to correct.) Well I’m out of babies…and hoping to stay that way through this next baby bug (people I know getting pregnant everywhere!!)  All of you….keep that contagious […]

The Very First Birthday…Sprint to the Finish.

Parenting

We all endure tests throughout life. They shape our character and reflect all the repeated quotations that have stuck to and motivated us throughout our lives.

There I was, sitting in a Caribbean paradise, wishing I had paid a little closer attention to Handy Manny, Dora, and Diego.  Yep, I said it…and really wished it.  What’s worse in the eyes of a foreign country…that you butcher their language trying to say something…or opt to be lazy and just speak English because […]

Yo no hablo español…somebody is going to kill you, Mom.

Parenting

There I was, sitting in a Caribbean paradise, wishing I had paid a little closer attention to Handy Manny, Dora, and Diego.  Yep, I said it…and really wished it.  What’s worse in the eyes of a foreign country…that you butcher their language trying to say something…or opt to be lazy and just speak English because […]

Yo no hablo español…somebody is going to kill you, Mom.

Parenting

Great picture, right?  “Like a magazine cover photo,” said the photographer this afternoon.  If you only knew the mental strife behind that photo.   What we had to do to get her to cooperate….Oh….my…3. I thought I had escaped the wrath of the terrible two’s.  My daughter is a very good kid, and extremely well spoken […]

Well, that does it.  I can no longer cast looks at other parents who bring their hacking, runny-nosed child out to the store…or to playgroup…or in my case, for Friday night pizza.  Armed with hand sanitizer and a gigantic wad of Kleenex, we toughed it out. Call it part of my “I now have 2 […]

The Hurty Chokes.

Parenting