Interpretation

Three-Year-Old is in this stage where his speech is…….um……challenging, shall we say.
Really?  We can understand maybe every sixth word.
Which makes things kinda hard when he wants to tell us something.
And he’s got all the facial expression and voice inflection and his eyes just plead with you to understand him and the vital ideas he is [...]

Read Full Post »

New Blog

If you are interested in my new running adventure you can check out the new tab at the top of this page.  I have created a new blog to chronicle my thoughts about running and the actual implementation thereof.
If you are just interested in reading about my mommy adventures, then it’s perfectly okay ignore the new tab.  [...]

Read Full Post »

I’m Just Sayin’

I really don’t understand the whole Halloween thing.  I mean, what gets into people, you know?  How is it that plastic parts in the shape of a man’s arms and legs and head, stuck into the ground so that it seems like he is being buried alive……..how is this considered decor?
“Classy” and “Halloween” certainly do [...]

Read Full Post »

A New Thing

So I turned 40 a few months ago and my brain started doing weird things.
Like thinking about how old I am and how many gray hairs I have and the general state of my I’ve-had-nine-kids body.
And I decided to do something about my newfound oldness.
I started running.
Growing up, I used to be the fastest kid.  [...]

Read Full Post »

Nursing. I Know. It Sounds All Boring and Educational But Really IS Worth Two Minutes of Your Day.

Many babies ago, I began calling the nursing experience “nu-nu” which sounds all mushy and gushy and irritatingly cutesy but isn’t really because “mushy” and “gushy” aren’t words that I generally use.
At least, not in the context of cutesy-ness.  Perhaps, however, in the context of diaper contents. 
(My mom LOVES when I post things like [...]

Read Full Post »

Barbie Hair

Very recently, I’ve read a blog post about being a cancer survivor, one about adopting 2 babies from Rwanda, and one from a woman who lives on a farm in Canada, who can make you just ache with her descriptions of gratefulness and love and utter faithfulness to the Lord.
This will not be one of [...]

Read Full Post »

Perspective

Have you had those days when you’re just irritated but you don’t know why?  And then you figure out that it’s because you’re a selfish, whiney pig-of-a-woman who just needs to be content and joyful and all those other nauseatingly perfect-sounding character qualities that take a lot of effort and you really don’t want to [...]

Read Full Post »

The Grand Canyon

I’ve been dried-up lately as far as writing goes.  I’ve been in some sort of weird funk that I think I’m coming out of, plus I’ve been trying to get us all settled here into our new house, PLUS I recently had to live through the heart-stoppingly scary experience of dragging my children to the [...]

Read Full Post »