We had our bi-annual “wrestle the three little ones to the dentist” earlier this week. We have been every six months since each kid turned two. Each visit, they get a clean bill of health and the little odd chipped part that the identical twins have on (get this) the same front tooth is noted […]
I’m pretty sure my sons love mud. I mean LOVE mud. Really anything dirty and equally as distinctive as the brown slime after a rainstorm. Case in point, they all had the stomach bug this weekend, and I won’t even begin to disgust you by relaying the gleeful conversations they had about that! At one […]
This past Sunday, I was sitting inside looking out our porch windows at my boys chasing each other with water guns and splashing in a shallow pool. You know the kind – the ~$7 hard sided blue or green pools from Walmart? Even as they grow, they still love these things. It was a nice, […]
“I don’t want to be different.” How often have we felt these words? Uttered these words? Or been struck by these words coming from the mouth of a child? This week has been a particularly busy one. We are settling into the summer routine which, probably because of my personality type, is turning out to […]
Last Saturday, my boys and I went to a baseball game for my oldest son. It was hot, humid, and admittedly, mommy was already starting off the day a little frazzled. The minute we arrived at the game, my twin sons saw a playground in the distance. “Mommy, mommy can we go to the playground?” […]
I have been reflecting in writing weekly on the Sunday Scriptures since the first Sunday of Lent this year. I have found it to be a wonderful spiritual practice for me. This week is a little different as I got the opportunity to work with the people at Catholic Women Preach who compile weekly videos, […]
Each night as I kiss my twins goodnight, they pick that exact time to tell me everything they can remember about their day. “Mama, I need to tell you something mama, did you know that at lunch I ate four cookies and I did not eat any vegetables?” or “Mama, I need to tell you […]
I love restaurants that have little playgrounds in the back – somewhere for my kids to let out their energy! We were at one such restaurant recently, and our boys were having a blast in the tiny little playground stuffed with more tiny little bodies than probably permitted by the fire code. At one point, […]
One of my twins loves, absolutely loves “baby” stuffed animals. Every day, it seems, he locates yet another one from the depths of his room and produces it for me saying “Mama, this is my baby.” He will bring the baby to the car, hug it close (meanwhile making a little squeaky sound that sounds […]
Lately when my littlest one does something he knows he might get in trouble for, he immediately says to me “Mommy, I love you.” I respond, “I love you too son, now what did you do?” I do not assume every time he says he loves me that it is because he is in trouble […]
