One of the things I’m struggling with these days is that now that all the kids are in school full time, I feel like I should totally have my shit together. And I don’t. I feel like I should be totally organized (I’m not), the house should be pretty clean (it isn’t), and I should […]
Number 4
I’m with *her*.
Conversation on the ride home from swim practice: Number 4: Mom, we had an election last week. Me: Oh, really? Number 4: Yeah, we could vote for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or we could check off “other” and write in a name. Me: Do you want to tell me who you voted for? Number 4: […]
My brain needs to start working out again.
Do you guys read a lot? I used to love to read. Then I had kids, and I was too tired to read anything that didn’t have pictures in it (except for (affiliate) The Book With No Pictures, cause the kids love that one). The exhaustion of having five kids under the age of 8 years […]
Life Lessons From The Saxophone
A week or so ago I wrote a post about Number 4 and how she was feeling conflicted about continuing to play the saxophone in band in school. This was a tough call for me because 1) she’s talented, 2) she LOVED it last year and 3) I think, like many of us, she may […]
Quitters never win? I don’t know. Maybe sometimes they do.
I have a predicament. I guess it’s not really a predicament. But I’m finding myself faced with a situation that, back in my pre-kid days, I would have known exactly what the best, smartest, healthiest, right thing to do was. Because you know everything there is to know about parenting before you have kids. Then […]
Number 7 is like a box of chocolates.
We had our first swim meet of the fall season today. And this year, Number 7 made her USS swimming debut and swam in her first serious, legit swim meet with Numbers 3, 4, and 5. She was the only 4 -year-old in the meet. She is just a couple days from her fifth birthday, […]