One of the biggest organizational challenges for moms of kids in school is the amount of papers that have to be organized/looked at/signed/returned. When I was a 4th grade teacher, I had 20+ kids coming into school every day with multiple papers. This can get out of control very quickly if you don’t have a […]
Parenting
I Tried Eliminating The Competition And It Totally Worked (Getting Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies Without A Fight)
Almost all the birthdays in our family fall in two major chunks. The first is the end of June to the beginning of July. There are four birthdays in that time. The second is the last two weeks of September and the first week of October. We also have four birthdays in that time. So […]
A Simple 7th Birthday Celebration
It was Number 7’s birthday on Friday. She turned seven years old. Number 7 has the latest birthday of all the kids, so she is always waiting and waiting and waiting AND WAITING for her big day to come. Everyone who knows me knows I have an issue with over-the-top birthday celebrations for kids for […]
Two Years From Now, They Will Remember *This*
Every day I look back through old posts I’ve written on that same day in previous years, and if there are any that are still relevant or if I think they will be useful to readers, I repost them on Facebook. (Yes, I know I should be scheduling these in bulk at one time so […]
Disorganization Is Making Your Job (Much) Harder
The longer I am a mom, the more it becomes clear that a lot of the exasperation I experience on a daily basis is my own doing. I am frustrating and exasperating myself. Which makes me more frustrated and exasperated. I suppose somebody could have pointed this out to me ten years ago (somebody probably […]
We’re Not On Sesame Street Anymore
When Number 3 was little, I was, as most new moms are, kind of a psycho about what TV shows the kids watched. It was pretty much all Sesame Street. We had about twenty-five Sesame Street DVD’s that we’d watch all the time. His first birthday cake was an Elmo cake, and his second birthday […]
