OH I have been so bad with posting lately! My sister has been in baby delivery drama for the past few weeks but the baby was finally born today! I was actually in the room. I’ve learned a few things after the experience …
1. Giving birth and watching a birth are such incredibly different experiences!
2. […]
For those of us that have kids this is a great quote that my brother-in-law sent me …
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
Tags: quotes, children, family
My sister, Kelley, is pregnant with her 4th child (yeah she’s nuts LOL). We just found out this week that it’s a girl. My name choice is Brie (her husband’s initials are BRE so it’s fitting!). I’ll put up a poll once we have a few name options so you can help Kel & BRE […]
I almost spit my crystal light on my computer screen laughing so hard when I read the USA Today article ‘Slacker Moms’ urge other mothers to chill. For the record I am a definite "Slacker Mom" not a perfect "Alpha" mom. Not that I wouldn’t want to be an Alpha mom - being a perfect […]
Oh I’m a bad mother for even thinking this but I believe I would rather have hot pokers stuck in my eyes than go to my 3rd grade daughter’s Spring Concert. In the spring the concert includes both 2nd and 3rd graders. What this means is that if you want to have any shot of […]
… Weigh them in public - school no less! I cringed when I read the Reuters’ article Obesity screening for schoolchildren questioned. In the UK schools are monitoring the weight of schoolchildren aged 4-5 years and 10-11 years old. This is done in the name of keeping "track of the nation’s obesity problem".
This article struck […]
My daughter would kill me if she knew I wrote this on my blog about her so I need to keep it a secret! She is 9 years old and just starting to ‘develop’. I recently got her some sports bra’s for girls. She hates them! Complains daily. She really isn’t developing any earlier than […]
My 9 year old daughter, 8 year old niece, 7 year old nephew and 2 year old nephew all decided to drive me nuts today! As my husband says, "its not a long trip". Real nice huh! Today was the first day of Spring Break and I really don’t know if I’ll survive! I like […]
