I just woke up from a three hour nap. I haven’t taken a three hour nap on a Saturday in a very long time. A VERY LONG TIME. Part of that is due to our schedule. We have swim practice on Saturday mornings and baseball games and a lacrosse clinic on Saturday afternoons. Soon we […]
Parenting
Number 4 Is A Teenager
Number 4’s birthday is the day before mine. Hers is on September 17th and mine is the 18th. We started a birthday tradition kind of by accident on Number 4’s 7th birthday. And ever since then, we’ve had a birthday “experience” together. She skips school for the day and we do something fun. This year […]
It’s Time To Dance
I turned 50 today. I cannot believe I am 50. Seriously. How the hell am I 50? OLD PEOPLE ARE 50. Not me. I don’t feel 50. Not on the inside, and not really on the outside, either. But you know what? Even though I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around the […]
Quality, Not Quantity.
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 […]
A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter
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 […]
I’m tired so here are some shitty pictures.
I am on Day 11 of a self-issued September challenge where I have set the goal of writing 30 posts in 30 days. I have been sitting here at the pool while my kids swim for almost 2 hours now and I have succeeded in doing pretty much absolutely nothing. The past 2 nights have […]