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I was never an organized sports kind of kid growing up. I attempted to play t-ball for one season and was *that* kid who played short stop and did everything but stop a ball because I was in my own little world. While running the bases once, my coach screamed, “GO HOME!! GO HOME!!!!”. Can [...]
My parents have a whole family (plus more) of stray cats who suddenly started taking up residence in their neighborhood a couple of years ago. There are about five of them that show up at their house morning, noon, and night for a meal. I suppose it doesn’t help that we feed them. In any [...]
We had so much goodness jam packed into this past weekend that I’m still trying to physically recover from it all. My baby (baby!) turned 8. He was three when I started this blog. I miss that sweet little three year old, but I love the young man he is turning into. Each stage of [...]
E.B. got to go to a birthday party this weekend for a friend and the party was a farm theme. He was so excited because the kids were able to take a spin on a real tractor and check out other farm equipment. Later that evening, my mom called to see if he had a [...]
Monday night I was folding laundry while E.B. was doing his homework. I came back into the kitchen and found this. I’m sure it had nothing to do with getting back on schedule after Christmas break.
Meet “Sprite”. Yes, he’s kind of scary looking in a clownish kind of way. Yes, he is homemade. And YES, this is our family’s “Elf on the Shelf”. Don’t laugh. I said, don’t laugh! OK. Laugh. Because we do. I discovered Sprite while going through some boxed-up toys from childhood a couple of years [...]
I knew it would happen at some point in parenthood…the day when my child would come up to me and ask, “Why is the sky blue?”. Isn’t that the universal question of kids? We even went through the phase of him asking simply “why?” after every answer we gave him about anything. It was [...]
