Kids Are NOT Being Kids

Have you heard the phrase “Kids will be kids,” from your child’s school? Has it made you want to smack some sense into someone? I just read for the second time this month about a child being bullied at school. I’m tired of these schools saying they have a zero tolerance policy, and yet if [...]

Stuff of Life

Life here has been hectic and boring all at the same time. My days have mostly been filled with doing bio-hazard laundry from a child with digestive tract issues, and soothing belly aches. Let me tell you, there’s nothing like having to collect a stool sample from a diaper as you’re making your breakfast because [...]

A Need for Dye Free Medications

Thank you McNeil Corp. You screwed me. I love you for that. Can you feel the love in the form of my cursing your existence and Motrin recall? Your junior strength Motrin in the orange flavor is the ONLY chewable tablet OTC pain reliever I’ve found for my son that does NOT contain red dye. [...]

Life With Zach

Zach has always been my “quirky” child. His recent Asperger’s diagnosis has given us an explanation for his quirks. One such trait of Zach’s scared the ever loving bejeezus out of me from a good sleep at 5am this morning.
Scenario: Zach had evidently come quietly into our room. I didn’t hear him until he was [...]

Jump Rope for Heart

It’s that time of year again where I beg shamelessly a couple times for my son Zach for donations for Jump Rope for Heart. He looks forward to raising money for the American Heart Association every year through this program at his school, and of course we fully support this interest. We’re no strangers to [...]

Krispie Trees

I know it’s way after Christmas, but I still made Krispie Trees for the kids. I melted 1/4 cup butter and a package of marshmallows. Then I added green food coloring until it was the color I wanted. Then I added 6 cups of Rice Krispies cereal and mixed it all together. Then I sprayed [...]

Teaching Kids to Give Back

We had a parent conference with my son’s teacher, guidance counselor, and principal just before Christmas break. One thing that was mentioned to us was that the school will recognize students who do charitable works outside of school when they have their quarterly awards assembly. That really made me think. We give throughout the year, [...]

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning with the kids was fairly uneventful. Zach ripped through all his gifts and then promptly took them all to his room so Aaron wouldn’t play with them. Not that I blame Zach. He got Star Wars action figures and Legos. With a 3 year old brother, they’re not exactly toys you want to [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Decorating the Christmas Tree

In order to keep Aaron out of the glass ornaments, I let him put the nonbreakable ornaments around the bottom while I put the other ornaments on the tree. He found the kids’ Santa aprons and hats, and insisted on wearing one while he decorated.

Christmas Cards

I’m so very very behind on these this year. Some of you will be getting this in the mail – eventually. My grand plan for getting to the post office Saturday was thwarted by the snow. We got over eight inches here, and that was enough to keep everyone digging out until yesterday. Here is [...]

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