Here’s a little Instagram snapshot from the last month, because sometimes it’s just more convenient to snap pictures on my phone instead of lugging my big camera around. I had plans to visit my good friend and her newborn baby at the hospital (more on that later), but as I…
Blake is in a serious machine phase. Everything that he plays with gets turned upside down, stacked up, hooked together, and transformed into an intricate “machine.” Each day after quiet time, he struts down the stairs and explains to me the new combination of toys that he orchestrated into a machine….
They fight just as much as they get along. But they are best friends.
I love the imaginations of preschool aged children. I think that is why I always gravitated towards the young ones back in my teaching days. But I don’t think I grasped back then just how fulfilling it would be to have my very own creative sidekick who constantly invents pretend…
I forgot that in Michigan, you can count on it raining at least one or two full days each week, destroying the option to meander along the beach. The view of the sand from our front porch was completely drenched with puddles. We’re not used to that much rain here…
We have an amazing children’s museum in our city. We finally went to check it out thanks to some passes from my friend. I loved all of the extra colorful touches that were found near the entrance. Blake was on cloud nine and had a deer-in-the-headlights look on his face…
A co-worker of Troy’s recently opened one of those trampoline arenas. He invited us to check it out. It’s safe to say that the boys thought they had died and gone to bouncy heaven. The warehouse had over 75 interconnected trampolines, including a specific arena for dodgeball. It’s a good…
I had so much fun building an animal village with my buddy Blake last night. I forgot that I was his mom for a while. I was genuinely enjoying our play time. Blake kept repeating, “This is really really really fun.” How could it not be fun with the awesome…
I love moments. Maybe not so much in the moments of trying to get a three-year-old to skip one little step in his nightly routine without a meltdown, or reasoning with a baby to keep one morsel of food on his highchair tray, but more in the moments of finding…
When I woke up this morning to face a cold rainy Saturday with the little ones alone again, I knew I had to think of something creative to do or we would all go crazy. Yesterday was not the high point with either of the boys and having no husband…
