Always evolving, Never Average
This past Saturday I found myself in an extremely rare situation. Number 5 and Number 7 were both at sleepover birthday parties. So there were only three kids home. Number 3 (14 years old) and Number 4 (13 years old tomorrow — can you believe it???) are pretty happy to spend time alone in their …Read More
Number 5 has always been a good sleeper. She learned to sleep on her own when she was a baby — we never had to make her cry it out. One day around five months old, she slept through the night. And that was it. There was a phase when she was two or three …Read More
It’s not officially the last weekend of summer, but school started last week and swim practice and baseball start next week so this weekend is pretty much the last hurrah for Summer 2019. It is a beautiful day here in CT today and a couple friends are coming over and so I just want to …Read More
Today was our first day of school. Two days ago I couldn’t wait. Yesterday I was feeling a little bit badly about counting down the seconds until the kids got on the bus. The kids were feeling mixed emotions. Number 3 is starting high school. He is excited to swim on the high school swim …Read More
I had a mini-meltdown yesterday. With two days left until school starts, and the kids on top of each other (and me), I had a momentary freak out. I had allowed myself to feel overwhelmed and I was focusing (or maybe more like obsessing) on all the wrong things. And I had almost convinced myself …Read More
About five weeks ago I declared I was taking massive action and writing one blog post a day for 30 consecutive days. I had really fallen out of the blog writing routine, and I was super erratic with posts, and I wanted and needed to get some consistency back. I wrote 32 consecutive posts. I …Read More
Our last day of school was on June 19th which was three weeks (and one day) ago. Leading up to June 19th, the weather here in CT sort of sucked. We had a lot of rain and it seemed like the sun was never going to come out and stay out and summer weather would …Read More
Number 7 is the baby of the family. Here she is on her first day of preschool when she was not quite three years old yet. Super cute, right? Being the baby of the family, she (as many youngest kids often do) has a way of working her magic on people and getting what she …Read More
My parents gave me the entire Little House On The Prairie DVD set for Christmas a few years ago. It is one of my favorite gifts to date. We started watching it as a family then, but the three little guys were really too little to get it, and we only made it the beginning …Read More
The other day I saw a post floating around Facebook entitled I’m Sick Of Having To Lose My Shit Before My Family Listens. This caught my eye because, well, I would have said something similar years ago. But I’ve spent the past few years doing a lot of work on myself. And here is the …Read More
