parenthood
You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello
It’s been a week now since Forest said good bye to naps (Logan gave them up about 6 months ago) and I find myself with no official child free break during my day. Surprisingly, the timing seems to be very nice because the boys are so good about playing with each other that I find [...]
Knowing
This morning I read the article “Guilt Trip into the Woods: Do Kids Really Need Nature?” and it brought up the need to write for me. At first I thought I was going to write about balance and how nature and the modern world are not mutually exclusive and pitted against each other. [...]
Earth Day
We went to the grocery store this morning and as will often happen, the boys asked for a balloon at the register. Today is Earth Day so instead of their usual red and blue balloons with various colored lollipops attached, they had big bright green balloons with green lollipops. The boys were disappointed [...]
Pacifier? What pacifier?
Forest has been a pacifier junkie since birth. Before having kids I had a very strong dislike of pacifiers but was willing to let it slide for bedtimes. Logan gave his up at five months but we hit 3 years old with Forest and I was so ready to say goodbye to that [...]
Merry Christmas
The day we went in for the boys 3 year check up, Logan was running a low grade fever and both Forest and I were a bit under the weather as well with coughs and sniffles. A few days later and Forest is doing ok with only a small cough but Logan and I [...]
Nursery Rhymes
The boys have developed in insatiable desire for nursery rhymes. Which I understand is normal for this age. We have three books of them that we rotate but what’s fun is how the boys are starting to memorize them and love to try and recite them. I have never encouraged them to [...]
Momma Told me that there’d be Days Like This
I owe you a post. A real post. Not just pictures and updates about all the neat stuff the boys are doing (which I’m behind on anyway), but something a little more, well like I said, real.
The boys want to do everything on their own. And they are getting good at it [...]
Creating Christmas Traditions
Being a new parents brings up the question of what traditions we want to have for our family. Some traditions are introduced by us from our childhood and own experiences, others are organic and emerge as the family simply lives our experiences.
One tradition that we agreed to before the boys were born was to always [...]
Priceless
I find Elmo’s voice extremely annoying. So not a fan. But the 10-15 minutes of peace and quiet that I get while the boys watch Elmo’s World as the boys are beginning the pre-nap meltdown is priceless.
Breakfast for Three
The boys have created a new way of eating breakfast in the past few weeks. They don’t sit in their chairs. They sit on daddy’s lap. Every…single..morning. He has to grab bites to eat in between them stealing his spoon or fork and eating his food. Even if it is [...]
