no time

for all you faithful readers – i’m still here.  and i promise that i’m still reading your site.  every single post.  however, these crawling days are making me long for the colic days.  okay, not really, but at least i was physically more rested then, if not mentally.  my youngest is keeping me running.  literally.  [...]

some several-small-kid-raising tips

i was talking to a friend yesterday and it made me think of some of the things we do around here routinely.  and i thought i’d post some.  in case you care.  (if i’ve posted them before just humor me.)
i have outlawed several things in my house due to little ones:  cereal, markers, and yogurt.  [...]

not for the faint of heart

i knew it wasn’t gonna be a good day 30 minutes after getting out of bed.  for those of y’all that are new, that’s approximately 5 minutes til 6 in the a.m.  having run out of wet wipes last night, my 2 youngest children decided to poop simultaneously.  the older of the 2 in her [...]

letter to the family at walmart yesterday

dear parents,
i saw you in the check out line with 4 small children.  your oldest looked just a year or two older than our oldest.  and your youngest was just about a year older than our youngest.  i noticed that your children were all so quiet.  two of which were sitting so contentedly in the [...]

he’s…

sitting up from a crawl
eating table food
so sweet

dangerous fighter

earlier in the day yesterday my 2 year old girl had a meltdown because i dared to say, “come here, baby.”  “I NOT BABY!”  we survived the nearly 10 minute meltdown and then went to have a nap.  after naptime, while changing her diaper (we’re not pottying right now, story for another post) i decided [...]

fear and toddlers

a friend of mine posted the other day about her 2 1/2 year old having nightime sleepy fear troubles.  and asked what we do about it.  so i thought i’d make it a post and put it in my 2 under 2 advice.
all three of mine so far have hit this “i’m scared of everything [...]

7 months

 it was just a month and a half ago that i googled “6 month old not rolling over” and now you “military crawl” everywhere.  E-VER-Ywhere. 
“can i have that please” comes out of my mouth now as much as i tell your sister ”girl, please don’t squish your brother.”

encouragement and randomness gleaned from yesterday

i hope my words will be soothing to your soul…
these are a few things i’ve learned the hard way.  it didn’t come easily or naturally for me.  i’m a worrier by nature.  but, time and finding others who’ve gone before me and applying scripture to everything has helped.  i haven’t arrived, but i am further [...]

live blogging my 2 1/2 year old

yesterday i read this.

and i thought, i haven’t posted much about the antics of my girl lately.  not that there aren’t antics.  oh, there’re antics.  i’m just so fed up with her antics most of the time, that i don’t find it very cutesy.  and there’s so many to choose from.  so i thought i’d [...]