A hair-raising good time…
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
I finally had a chance to get the pictures from the holidays off of our camera and my phone and uploaded onto our computer. Every time I do this I am reminded how much I love the digital age and the way it allows us to simply hit “move to trash” on those photos that…
I wish I could say that I have treated this week as the Holy Week that it is. But, that would be far from true. Instead, I’ve been more impatient and short-tempered than usual… in large part because the girls have been more at each other than ever before. I’ve yelled more than I’d like…
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community (even if their intentions are ever so earnest), but the person who loves those around them will create community. ~ Deitrich Boenhoffer I ran across this quote on a website the other day, and it’s one of my new favorites. I think it’s going…
Between the two of them, each week the girls bring home no less than 4-5 paintings and projects from school. I always like to look at the artwork and ask them questions about how they did it and how it relates to what they’re learning, etc. Then, I put what I can on the refrigerator…
We’ve been having some issues lately with Toddler 1 in terms of behavior and cooperation. She’s always been strong-willed, but her level of defiance and her determination to have her way seems to have peaked in the last few weeks. So, in an effort to encourage better behavior without anyone losing their sanity, I decided…
I thought it would be fun for the Preschooler to start taking tennis lessons this summer. So, on Monday afternoons we trek to the other side of town for a 4-6 year old “Mighty Mites” clinic. Part of the reason I thought this would be a good summer activity is because I knew the tennis…