Why am I always so busy? Despite my efforts, we still always seem to be running around like a bunch of little headless chickens.
Today I planned to:
Go to the library.
Make some bracelets with the girls.
Attend a family picnic with a local homeschool group.
But throw in a few extra meals, baking bread, putting people down for naps, reading library books, talking […]
Still don’t have a working computer. Still unpacking and organizing. Also, throwing a party for my oldest tomorrow. Will blog more … sometime.
For now, here, you can enjoy this little tirade of mine. I wrote it as an email to a friend a few months ago. She was pregnant and slightly lamenting about her figure, which […]
Filed in: health • self-reflection | July 29, 2009
Do all kids get so angry sometimes they seem to be “stuck”? Where it doesn’t matter what you do, what you say, there is almost nothing you can do to help them get out of it? In fact, the more you try, the more likely they are to slap their hands over their ears or […]
Filed in: parenting • self-reflection | July 22, 2009
I’m here, I’m just surrounded by so many things to do I sometimes don’t even know where to begin. We’re in our new house, but there are still a few things at the old one, and it needs cleaning. Right now my kitchen floor is completely covered in every food item I own, plus most […]
Filed in: just life | July 22, 2009
Little Carrie has a bit of redness in the diaper area, and Matt was lamenting over it as he changed her. I asked him if we maybe we should start doing Elimination Communication — where you teach even tiny babies to let you know when they need to pee or poop so you can “catch” it in […]
Filed in: family | July 16, 2009
The Quote: “We must be so careful in speaking to a child. What we say or don’t say, how we say it and when is so very, very important in shaping a child’s view of himself or herself. But it is even more important in shaping that child’s faith in us and their faith in […]
Filed in: child development • parenting • spiritual | July 13, 2009
After a long, uh, discussion about how we’re going to work our upcoming in-town move:
Matt: Why’d you have to go and marry such a stubborn man?
Me: I didn’t recognize it as stubbornness.
Matt: Did you not see that I always did things the hard way before we got married?
Me: Yes, but I thought all you needed was […]
This is my grandma, the one who comments here sometimes, because she rocks like that.
Filed in: family | July 11, 2009
The Sugar Bugs in Jade’s teeth: Oh, Jade, don’t let your mama brush your teeth! We want to stay here. We like it in here. We like eating your teeth.
Jade, 3: No, I WILL let my mama brush my teeth! My mama wants me to have teeth! Defiantly opens mouth wide.
We actually haven’t had too much resistance […]
Filed in: parenting | July 11, 2009
Hi, I'm Kate.
I have a propensity for rambling at length about parenting, attempting crafting projects far beyond my capabilities, staying up entirely too late, and craving sugary treats. This is my journal.
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