This summer I competed in several triathlons. Not surprisingly I was pretty tired. Not as tired as today though. This morning my younger son (YS) had a weight and height check at the doctor’s office. He’s about to turn 2.5 years old. Due to his light weight, the pediatrician has […]
The Olympic Event of Parenting
December 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: health
Why?
December 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My twins are well into the Why stage. Even though it can get a bit exhausting answering “Why Mommy?” twenty times in a row, I’m using this opportunity to help my girls learn. At first I would answer the original Why and then the Whys that followed about the same question. I recognized that they […]
Tags: Child Development
Living the Example
December 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
Community service has been a big part of my life since my own childhood. My own mother often took me along as she did her “volunteer work”. It has been such a part of my life that, as an adult, I never considered if I would volunteer… it was merely a question of where and […]
Tags: Volunteer
The State of the Relationship
April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m going to be honest, my relationship with the older boys has not always been easy. There are certain aspects of their collective personality that either clash with mine or at the very least are completely incomprehensible to me. Is this their fault? Nope. Mine? No, I don’t think that […]
Tags: Parenting · Relationships
