December 14 2009Children come in all shapes and sizes, as do parenting guides. One of the cardinal rules of parenting is to praise a child for a job well done. Fortunately this is a natural instinctive rule that matches the facial expression of delight and possibly a hand flourish or a hug. [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed, the holiday season is in full swing. For most people, this means getting to spend extra quality time with the ones they love. For me, it means I never see my husband.
For those of you who don’t know, my husband is a manager at a [...]
Re-post from last year. But hey, a girl can be proud of a great post, right?
It snowed! How lovely to wake up and look out the window and see everything covered in a clean blanket of snow. Daniel crawled into bed next to me and snuggled for awhile. When he got up I told [...] 
Gotta love this school district. They were going to remain open, but they couldn't get any bus drivers to come in, so they had to close.' [...] 
Now, I know you all love puppies on a Christmas card. Who doesn’t? Let me tell you, though, that it is no easy task getting two pups to cooperate for their annual holiday photo. This year, instead of trying to get one photo of both dogs, we decided to photograph [...]
I have a claim to fame! I've been featured on the Divine Influence Blog courtesy of my lovely Trimmies friend Leanne. So I can now proudly display this lovely banner. Pictures of decorating the tree seems to be the theme for today (and a lovely theme it is!), so I’ll share ours as well. I am just so happy that it is done! It didn’t seem to take as long this year, possibly because Michael is so much more helpful [...]
This is one of my favorite videos...and pretty much what being owned by a cat is like:
My children love this, and adopted the finger pointing to mouth with the plaintive "MROW?" as the universal sign around here for, "Hey, I need something to eat!" It gets my attention and they [...]
