Archive for March, 2008
Differing Tastes in Music
While having the boys this weekend I decided to perform a little experiment. During play times this weekend I put the TV onto the cable music Electronica and Rap; HipHop stations (my favorites) and took mental notes of what types of music the boys danced to. From my observations, there’s a fairly definitive […]
Democracy is Messy
I heard the title phrase a lot in the past few weeks. First on March 4th as we struggled to understand the Texas Democratic caucus system while 450 of us stood outside of a retirement community for three hours. Most of us had never participated in a caucus before, many of us had […]
My Truth About Motherhood
My friend Wendy warned me over and over about how my heart was going to explode from all the love when I had children. So I had a really good idea of the good stuff. But until you’re a Mom, and in my case doubly so with twins, all the things people say […]
Weekend
This weekend Dusty has both boys the whole time which is currently a rare occasion but about to become a monthly one once he’s settled into his new house. We originally arranged this so that Brad and I can attend our county Democratic convention on Saturday as Obama delegates. Of course being “baby […]
Lying
I read this very interesting article a few weeks ago and thought I’d share it. It’s about children lying and it has brought up some interesting discussion in our household about “white lies” and honesty and how to raise the boys. I mean, how do you teach your children that sometimes it’s ok […]
experts
I have a bone to pick with the toddler “experts.” They like to say that the best defense for when your baby (6-18 months) gets into stuff that is unsafe is to “remove and substitute” or “distract.” That’s all well and good in theory but reality is that if you tell one of […]
Connections
Logan has recently been demonstrating that he understands that pictures in books represent things in “real life.” Brad was telling me that the other day he saw a fire truck in one of his books and pointed to the Little People fire truck, going back and forth pointing for Brad. This morning he […]
Boys at work
College is paid for
College is paid for… mine that is. Some 13 years later.
Last night we did something amazing. We paid off my student loan. I graduated college in ‘95 and have been paying on that darn thing ever since. It was such a momentous occasion that involved only a few clicks of the […]
I called calling it too soon
It seems that Logan’s recent issues with eating were not toddler food picky-ness at all but the continuing saga of being sick. Because he’s back to eating like normal again! I seemed to have gotten some kind of bug and I’m guessing it’s the same one that he had. It started off […]
