Today has been A DAY. Where you are behind from the very beginning and then things just kind of unravel from there. Today was a Monday morning where the lack (or total absence) of planning ahead and being prepared over the weekend came back to bite me in the butt. Hard. We had a busy […]
Parenting
A Wedding To Remember
Seven years ago I was in desperate need of a babysitter, and I put an ad out on Sittercity.com. I didn’t really expect anything to come from it, but I figured it was worth a shot. That one decision led to an eventual knock on our door from a beautiful, smart, funny, ballsy, super cool […]
Why Competitive Swimming Is AWESOME
Let me tell you why I love the sport of swimming SO MUCH. After being on the same swim team for six years, we switched to a new team about six months ago. This came as a surprise to our former team, and some people were really understanding and supportive of our decision, and then […]
A Very Short Story
If you think your kids don’t pick up on what is going on with you — even when you don’t verbalize it — you are wrong. If you think your kids have no self-awareness, you are also wrong. Of course, some of our kids have more awareness than others. Number 6, my eight-year-old, is like […]
I’m Pushing Back On Homework. Hard.
This is the box that contained the pizza we had for dinner tonight. Those holes and that big gash in the box? That is the result of a homework meltdown tonight. It’s not the first meltdown we’ve had here. It’s not the second. It’s not the third. Between my second, third, and fourth grader, it’s […]
One Second
Kristofer is in eighth grade this year, and he decided to join the cross country team, mainly because Ingrid was on it last year and she had a lot of fun and also did really well, and I think he felt like he was missing out on something. Plus it’s a short season, it doesn’t […]
