Thursday evening … I am tucking my kiddo in bed for the night and we are reminiscing about our day.
At one point, he says to me “You really are a great mom on the inside. I know I have said you are a mean mom when I get angry, but you are just mean on the outside, and on the inside you are a super great mom and I really love you”. To which I replied “Hmmm, OK. Thanks, I love you too kiddo!”. XOXO
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…
We too have an Elf (on the Shelf) that comes to live with us during the Holiday season. Our elf first visited us last year when my kiddo continued to ask Santa for his very own elf. Our home continues to be filled with the belief of Santa and all the magic of Christmas. I understand the premise of…
Mother Nature <with her steady rain> and Mother’s Day have come and gone. Making the books once again was a fun and adventure outing with my kiddo, my mother and my mother’s sister <aka.. my Aunt>. Originally, several options to explore were Old Man’s Cave, Deer Creek State Park or the Ohio Caverns, but pouty Mother nature had her way…
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…
As with everything, all good things must come to an end. And the year two-thousand twelve is no different. It is amazing the reality that time flies and in this case a year, a whole three-hundred sixty-six days {leap year} has come to a close. It was a good year for me and my kiddo, with…
For most people, the month of January means a fresh start (a very cold midwest living fresh start). To me, it means a free pass to resolve my past, wish for my future and live in the present. It means perfection with age! January usually also means we get to create new lists. Lists that provoke us to be better…
I get told I am a mean Gigi every single day, but then she will come around later to hug me or sugar me……………..makes everything all better……..well until I ask her to clean up her mess!
They know were good people, just have to set us straight on ocassion, LOL!