Chris and I try to be strategic and consistent with Ali when teaching her about God’s Word. Wherever we can add it to her life, we try to do so. As a part of these efforts, I have several Classic-Kid Bible Song CDs in the car that she listens to and sings along with. I […]
Three Totally Rocks.
There are a lot of great things about Ali being the old age of three. No more cleaning poo out of diapers is most definitely towards the top of the list… Full and total communication – also nice (although sometimes it might get a bit TOO full and TOO continuous-ad-infinitum for my taste, but no […]
The End of the Sucking Saga.
So. Remember my deepest, darkest, Mommy secret? And my failed past attempts to take away Ali’s Ring of Mordor? ***Cringing in shame*** Yes, indeed, I have not been brave enough to finally pull the plug, as it were, on my 3 1/2 year old’s halfway-through-the-nap-paci-getting habits. But fortunately, if I’m not brave enough to deal […]
Top 10 Great Things About Having a Boy.
So I’ve been quite busy processing the whole I’m-about-to-be-a-Mom-of-a-child-of-the-Bizarre-Male-Species thing this week. It’s not that I was opposed to the idea, it’s just that, after 3.5 years of parenting a girl, I somehow had it in my head that we were a sort of “girl-child” family…but no longer. But, I’ve thought of some benefits of […]
Dora, The Saint.
There’s a new trend in cartoons this generation, and it kind of freaks me out. Attempted Interactivity. I say attempted because half the time I can barely get my toddler to interact with me while she’s watching TV, let alone the TV itself. Dora does it. Handy Manny does it. Even Mickey Mouse has come […]
Restaurant Critic, Three Year Old Style.
I sometimes feel guilty for how familiar my child is with all of the restaurants in town. I mean, what kind of mother AM I that my three year old could give a well-informed tour of the city’s dining establishments, including who has the best Chicken Salad, Grilled Cheeses, and coloring pages?! I mean, I […]
A Completely Unnecessary Blow to the Pregnant Woman’s Psyche.
Last night, I had dinner with my LifeGroup, a group of teenage girls from church that a couple of my friends and I have called our own for the past three years. We had a great time, but afterward, I was TIRED. It had been a long day for a still-in-the-low-energy-stage pregnant woman, and I […]
The Princesses of the States.
There’s nothing that Ali loves more than Princesses and Princess dresses. I spend approximately 28% of my week helping her dress and re-dress her little plastic princesses, trying my best to avoid the task of putting their microscopic shoes that refuse to stay on their nearly-microscopic feet. (I try to convince Ali that Princesses are […]
Parties: The Cure for (Kid) Morning Sickness.
It’s been a very sickly house around here this week. Chris got a cold on Monday that stuck around all week, I’ve (obviously) not been feeling well at all (sorry, dear blog), and then there’s Ali. You see, she’s got morning sickness. Bad. Except it’s the all-day-sickness variety, mysteriously just like her mother’s… I feel […]
The Perils of Sleepwalking and Motherhood.
I have a condition – Sleepwalking. This condition has come and gone different times in my life, but has ultimately only landed me in the emergency room exactly once. However, that fateful night at the ER was not the only scary situation I’ve gotten myself into due to said condition. My condition is brought on […]