I spend my days at home with 4 precious, young children.  Most days are simple.  And sweet.  Yes, there are squabbles.  Yes, there are messes.  Yes, going anywhere is an ordeal.  But overall, the days are filled with sweetness. Not yesterday. Yesterday was bad. If cameras had recorded what went on inside my house and […] Read more…

I am the proud mother of a wonderful loving threenager. What’s that you say?  Oh, well let me inform you. A threenager is basically a living Sour Patch kid.  One minute, they are laying on the concrete screaming and next playing happily with their siblings.  They are demanding crustless bread and skinless apples in fun shapes, […] Read more…

Emotionally speaking, toddlers make 13-year-old girls seem like rock-solid titans of reason.  My own 3-year-old has been “set off” by something as seemingly not-big-deal-ish as finishing her sucker, her shoes being too “match-y” and – my personal favorite – her blanket lovey not being smelly enough. I am now knee-deep in my 3rd toddler, with a 4th following […] Read more…