I mentioned in a previous post: new-years-check-up, that one of my missions this year is to get back on track with our budget. With four kids in tow, we really need to chill it on the spending! I decided a great way to help me focus on this mission would be to read this book: Here’s my only problem: In chapter two she says you should de-clutter your house. In fact, she recommends getting a babysitter […]
» Read moreGoal: Be anywhere near as happy as Dan…That’d be great! As I wrote in a previous post, my goal for 2014 is to chill. I want to calm down, enjoy my children, and not get all worked up about a bunch of stuff that doesn’t even matter all that much! I was doing pretty great on day one, but then January 2nd hit, and Alan went back to work. I don’t think ‘calm’ or ‘happy’ would be the […]
» Read moreThis was SO EXCITING, ya’ll. Now that JD can sit and play with toys, Daniel is beginning to view him as a buddy. : ) They played in Dan’s room together (as in close by, simultaneously playing) for 30 minutes today. Daniel was having a ball putting Lightning McQueen in and out of the Mac trucks while JD LOVED the shape sorter. He kept grabbing it, shaking it, and throwing it. Dan has three months left of being […]
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This past week was a seriously crazy one. Monday: We drove into the city for Daniel’s “My ears hurt” doc appointment. It turned out his ears were totally fine. If only I knew how to check for ear infections! I could spare myself so many doc appointments! Then we came home, picked up Joshua from half day school, and stayed home until Monday night Yoga class. I squeezed in laundry and household chores where I could. […]
» Read moreWho doesn’t love a toddler? What’s more precious than a baby? Nothing! There is nothing more precious than a baby, and yet there are also few things more taxing than caring for a toddler and a baby, at the same time. It’s all coming back to me: why, after giving birth to Caleb, 20 months after having Joshua, why I gave away all my baby stuff and said I was never doing that again. I had […]
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Today a very bad, bad, bad thing happened. (And for the sake of anyone new to reading my blog, you should know that I like to whine about my petty problems, as though they are actual problems. Sometimes I just do this for dramatic effect…. ; ) In the world of raising toddlers or babies, your worst nightmare is a bad napper. I’ve never had a bad napper on a regular basis, thank God! I guess he knows I could never handle […]
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