From the monthly archives:

March 2011

man with a plan

March 26, 2011
boy lays under play equipment at the park

Reid(7) is a bit impulsive. Before he could swim, he would just jump into a pool. What is your plan, Reid? He climbs high into a tree and can’t get back down. What is your plan, Reid? He refuses to pee before leaving the house even though it is obvious that he is uncomfortable. What [...]

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find happiness

March 23, 2011
grocery store search for Child Hunger Ends Here pushpins on ConAgra foods

Seek. Find. Prepare. Procure. Register. Eat. Feel good. When you register the code on specially marked packages of ConAgra Foods, you not only feed yourself, but someone else. Child Hunger Ends Here. 1 code can help provide 1 meal to Feeding America. It is easy. Really easy. And will make you feel happy inside. I [...]

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just a moment

March 20, 2011
boy running

Every evening there is a minute. A tiny sliver of the day I cherish. A moment that I have participated in thousands of times with three boys has recently taken on the significance of scarcity. Rhett(5) still asks for me to help him with his bath. He is a force of independence the rest of [...]

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a matter of taste

March 17, 2011
boy with snot coming out of nose boy with runny nose

A long time ago, before I had kids, one of the doctors I worked for said something that has stuck with me. He had four kids. Two boys, two girls. He mentioned one day how he loved all his kids, BUT he loved his girls more… because they just smell better. Fast forward 15 years [...]

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he calls me mommy

March 16, 2011
4 year old calls me mommy 4 year old boy calls me mommy

Rhett(4) complains that sometimes I don’t answer him when he calls for me. It isn’t that I intentionally tune him out, but looking back I admit to occasionally avoiding yet another question, request or debate. Today we were sitting quietly together and Rhett looked and me and said, Mommy, did you hear what word I [...]

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i bought easy feet

March 6, 2011
Easy Feet EASY FEET foot scrubber

I saw the EASY FEET commercial: Here are the highlights from the As Seen on TV version: How do you clean your feet? You bend, stretch and you can’t reach! Keeping your tired feet young looking is such a chore, but not anymore. That makes me worn out just thinking about it. Hi, this is [...]

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love drop for katie

March 5, 2011
Love Drop for Katie Katie

Love drop is an amazing organization.  They choose an incredible family in need each month and raise money/services to help. This month they chose my friend Katie. I met Katie about two and 1/2 years ago through blogging and found that she lived here in DFW.  She and I met several times at local Chick-fil-A’s [...]

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real friendship

March 3, 2011
boy thinks about friendship brothers and friends

At the dinner table tonight, Ryan(9) declared that he was going to tell his friend to stop hitting, pinching and kicking him. I am a girl so the obvious follow-up to this was, “that doesn’t sound like much of a friend.” Ryan is a boy and responded that this friend was his very best friend. [...]

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genetic soup

March 2, 2011
boy asks questions persistent boy

One of the things my husband and I have noticed after observing our three boys is that in our gene pool there is a dominant gene for persistence. My highly scientific research has uncovered this genetic material in 2/3 of my children. I am not even sure that persistence is a strong enough word to [...]

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