There was this one particular Sunday, about two months ago, that I was sitting with our 6-year-old in church. John David was in rare form that day, just bursting at the seams with thoughts to speak and questions to ask, all during the sermon, of course. I actually sat in the pew and jotted down the hilarious things he said while it was fresh on my mind, for your reading enjoyment: “Mom, in the past, did they have doctors?” “Did […]
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I mentioned before that I’m using this book to build a new family schedule. My first one was ridiculously over-zealous: I’ve scratched some of that mess out and shortened it and replaced as much as possible with “Sit on the porch and watch Daniel ride his trike.” However, a TRULY REALISTIC schedule would look more like this: 6:00 Begin hitting snooze button…. 6:30 Get out of bed. Take quick walk. 6:45 Argue with Alan over which is quicker: Keurig […]
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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. […]
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What. a. morning. Before I tell you this, you must first envision me 32 weeks pregnant. Okay, it looks a little like this: and that was actually a couple of weeks ago…. So each day is something of a work out anyway, but this morning was……..especially special…. 1st the walk to school was a little rough due to constant false labor contractions. Don’t worry, they don’t really hurt, and once I quit walking they were gone. It was “walk […]
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