I hate being sick! Of course who likes it (besides kids who get a low-grade fever with no other symptoms and get to stay home and watch movies instead of going to school...they like it). I also hate going to the doctor and taking medicine. Over the past few years, our family has tried hard [...]
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5 Things my Kids Taught me in 2013
Every day is a new adventure and there certainly is much truth to that especially when you have six little adventures living in your home. But days are more than just adventures for us parents, they are educational as well and since we just closed the books on 2013 I thought Iâd share what I [...]
A New Hope
Another Christmas has come and gone because as Brooklyn reminded us on Thursday, âlast Christmas was yesterday.â But now that Christmas 2013 is in the books it seems like a time of reflection is in order. Do you remember a movie from 2006 titled Children of Men? Itâs set in 2027 where women have somehow [...]
Homemade Mounds and Almond Joy
Confession....I have a HUGE sweet tooth. Â I know that sugar is bad for me. Â I know that is zaps my energy, and decreases my immune system...but I love candy. Â Recently Ryan and I decided that we were not going to eat candy anymore unless it is made with real food ingredients. Â In other words, it [...]
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Great and Other Expectations
One of the greatest sources of conflict for any of us is unmet expectations. So many of the low moments in my life are when people didn't behave the way I thought they should or hoped they would. At the same time there are an equal amount (if not more) of moments where others are [...]
What are we Teaching our Kids?
The ice started to come down here in Dallas/Fort Worth last Thursday afternoon and it didnât stop until 24 hours later. Icemageddon was upon us and except for about an hour Sunday afternoon we were barricaded in our home from Thursday night to Tuesday morning. We have six kids. Cabin fever doesnât begin to describe [...]
Who Has the Greater Responsibility?
One of the biggest struggles I've had as a parent is a pretty common one. And that is requiring better behavior from my children than I require from other adults or even myself. One of the ways I usually justify the higher standard for my kids is that I am teaching them and training them [...]
A Girl Named Jaime
I met a girl named Jaime at Trader Joe's the other day. She approached me and asked me if some of my children were adopted. After many years of being a foster and adoptive mom I am used to random people stopping me and asking me about my kids. When I was a new foster [...]
The Tale of Two Thanksgivings
Thanksgiving 2013 has come and gone without serious incident at our house. That statement is enough reason to rejoice because there is always the potential that something could go wrong every year. I won't get into it here but let's just say experience has made me wise. Fortunately this year nothing went wrong. We had [...]