A Typical Exchange
Peaches: It’s not workin’ (as she taps automatic stamper onto the paper), It’s not workin’ Plum: Here, I get it, I get it (grabs stamper) BANG, BANG, BANG! Plum: Hmmm, not workin’, it broken.
View ArticleHorsin’ Around
Took a little drive through the surrounding farm country with the twins on a bitter winter day while we were waiting for their big brother to finish up an appointment. We’d done this drive a week or...
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If you let the children get out crackers and eat them all on their own at lunch time … does this make you a good mom for teaching independence and self sufficience?
View ArticleMaybe I Need to Learn to Quack
Technically, I am of “advanced maternal age” and in some circles I’d even be considered “perimenopausal.” So why is it when a young woman in her 20s tells me that my son pushed a little girl, I feel...
View ArticleI got more than a T-shirt
The weather was better, and worse than last year. It was warmer, but there was a lot more rain. But I didn’t mind, cause it was raining money for my cause. This year, thanks to fabulous family and...
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Suddenly, the twins have discovered singing. Miss Peaches adores one particular song/story that she learned at school from an Eric Carle book. It is a repetitive narrative (aren’t all children’s...
View ArticleHair-raising Discovery
On the way to meet the biggest at the bus stop yesterday I made a little discovery. The sweet part was that nearly half of it was made from our dog’s hair (I brush her outside). Who knew that bark-y...
View ArticleFinished!
I completed my 365 project! I missed 2 days, but I was pretty thrilled with that. I decided that I would substitute in an image for those days, so there were still 365 images in my project. I was...
View ArticleWouldn’t this be fun?!
I’m so intrigued with this new venture by former Creative Mama Jessica Cudzilo! Define School from Jeff Manion on Vimeo.
View ArticleTeach the Children
Some of my dear and respected friends shared a post yesterday from a mother of several teenage boys who was counseling young girls to be careful about what images they post online or she would delete...
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