This is me trying to improve upon last school year. We did ok toward the beginning of the year, but soon settled in to many months of rushed mornings and the same PBJB* day after day after day. Eventually we finished out the year with buying school lunch every day. And there’s nothing wrong with that,… Continue reading Lofty Meal Plans Part 2 – Breakfast and Lunch
You’re welcome… for the song that’s now stuck in your head. Tonight I went to an event put on by my favorite blogger, Jordan Page. Go check out her site at funcheaporfree.com if you’re not familiar with it. She’s awesome! I just came home and had to write down the things swirling in my brain,… Continue reading Tell Me What You Want, What You Really Really Want…
WARNING: I am not the sort of person who should be giving out advice about what to eat/feed your family or how to pull it off. I am terrible at getting dinner on the table and we do NOT eat super healthy around here. However, just like anybody else, I have to figure out what we’re going to… Continue reading My Lofty Meal Plans for This Year – Part 1
There is no way to adequately describe how I’m feeling right now. I’m in my room, getting ready for swim lessons, and outside my door I can hear the vacuum going and the clinking of clean glasses being put away in the cupboard. There are people here, cleaning. People other than me. Little people, who live… Continue reading They’re Out There Cleaning!
I think every mom knows at least one (or 25) other mom/s that she admires and would like to be like. I certainly have my fair share of mothers I look up to, but a surprising amount of them are fictional. Here are the women (and some animals) I’d like to be like when I grow… Continue reading Great Moms in Children’s Literature
The best potty-training experience I ever had* was when I followed the guidelines in this book by Dr. Glenn Latham. A few of the main points are: Use 100% positive reinforcement – you don’t say anything negative about it ever. Take all the emotion out of it – when there’s an accident you just clean it up.… Continue reading Poop and Pilates (or How I Learned to Stop Making Excuses and Start Working Out)
I don’t understand how you can take your kids all those fun places. I feel like I’m barely making it in survival mode. Well yeah, you still have babies! I only have one car seat to buckle and everyone can walk. All I ever do is get drinks and wipe bums. How do you have time… Continue reading The Difference A Year Makes
There were two houses for rent on the same street: the run-of-the-mill rambler with clean white walls and new carpet, and the 100-year-old farm house with a big yard, a charming porch, and a laundry room hidden behind a secret bookshelf door. I’d been a mother for all of four months and knew next to nothing about babies,… Continue reading The Enormous Exersaucer
So, you may have noticed that we do a letter of the week around here. I try to do some kind of activity with the littles every morning, and we incorporate the letter of the week into that and sometimes into meals or family night or whatever. I love it, because when there are no… Continue reading P is for Plain Old Playing
If you live in Weber County, Utah and you are ever frustrated at the lack of availability of holiday/seasonally-appropriate books at the library, I apologize. It’s my fault. Hopefully you can content yourself with contrived little “‘Twas the Night Before _____” picture books with no plot, because the good books are all at my house. If… Continue reading A Plethora of St. Patrick’s Day Books
A Color of Her Own 