Tonight, working on homework with my seven-year old kiddo (turning eight in a month) and discussing books he has to read somehow turns to him almost being a teenager … Me: Here are the last three books from library you can choose from to read tonight (as I hold them up) Kiddo: No way! those…
Just the other night, my kiddo made the reading mile stone called the 100-point wall. For every book read and quiz taken, points are earned and tallied each school year. It is an awesome feat and one of which I am so proud. So proud that I attempted to give him lots of kisses and hugs…
Here we are two months into the New Year and spring is on the horizon! And with spring comes the tulips and the crocuses and the tree buds. Spring brings with it longer days and the warmth of the sunshine and gives us glimpses that summer will soon be here. Spring also means I get…
My entry in the I Heart Faces Best Faces 2012 Challenge 2012. When it snows, play in it, run with it and wear it on your eyelash! I Heart Faces
Me and my kiddo: Driving to school all while listening to a Columbus Zoo commercial about their new hunka hunka burning love Nanuq (the male stud Polar bear) on loan. {Commercial talking about the hope for new baby polar bears while Nanuq is on loan}. Kiddo: Mom, do animals get married? Me {thinking in my head}: Ah…
This week is all about Camp Grandma. It is the week between the last day of true summer camp and the first day of school. And being that I still need to work this entire week, the distress call to my parents was placed. S.O.S And they came through on request. According to my kiddo,…
I had heard the saying long ago that what is not an expression of love is an expression of fear. How true I felt that was, then and now! Think about it. When someone is being kind or caring or displaying some level of affection (whether it be holding the door for you, helping you…
Celebrating a birthday is always one of the most special activities in the whole wide world. Everyone tells you to have a happy birthday; they sing the happy birthday song to you; you get to make your very own secret wish and blow out your candles; you receive gifts, you get to take yummy treats…
Me: I love you. <kiss… mush .. kiss… kiss> You are an awesome kiddo. <kiss… kiss… kiss> I am so glad you were born. <kiss… mush … mush .. kiss… kiss> Kiddo: Mommmmm. <ugh> Stop! <eye roll> You are supposed to be acting like an adult and teaching me how to act like an adult. …
The month of May has always a special month for me. <Originally>, it was just the month I celebrate my birthday. Then seven years ago in the month of May, I become a mother when my first and only child was born. Now, May is the month I also celebrate Mother’s day and my kiddo’s…