Let me tell you something about second grade girls basketball. Um… It’s not really basketball. It’s more like skipping. With a ball. The girls also do a lot of hopping around with their hands up in the air. They have no idea that their coaches tell them to do this so they can block a […]
Your Daily Dose
What I learned in therapy this week: I’m still working on that 90%.
I have been working really hard to teach the kids that the only people they can control are themselves. That they cannot make other people do what they want them to do, or what a reasonable person would think someone should do. I have really been trying to teach them that the only thing they can […]
The broom kind of gave it away.
Numbers 5, 6, and 7 were playing very nicely this morning. So nicely that I was able to get a bunch of stuff done. Number 5 was doing her own thing. Numbers 6 and 7 were playing together in the playroom. They were fairly quiet. Quiet enough that I was sure they were doing something […]
3 Awesome Dresser Transformations
Back in September I got all of this stuff for free on the side of the road: I finally got around to refinishing some of it. My dad and I are working as a team. I’m basically coming up with the ideas and providing him with the materials. He’s doing most of the painting… Because […]
Five Minutes
6:30:00 a.m.: “Mom, can I have a tattoo? Where are the tattoos? You said I could have a tattoo in the morning!” 6:30:03 a.m.:”Mommy, can you help me cut this out? Where are the scissors?” 6:30:47 a.m.:”Mommy, does my butt smell?” 6:31 a.m.:”Mommy, do we have school today?” 6:31:05: “Mommy? Can you change Number 7’s […]
Pavlov’s Dogs
Number 6 is no dummy… Yesterday I wrote about him and his temper. I thought he came about it all on his own. It was an innate thing. A developmental stage. Not really anything to do with me. Yesterday he woke up from his nap and asked for my iPad. He’s got a thing for my […]