“I don’t eat chicken, do I?” he asked, a perplexed look on his face as he tried to understand. “Of course you do sweetheart, what do you think chicken nuggets are?” He scrunched his little face up in concentration as he took in my words. Then he brightened and said slowly, “Oh I get it […]
The first time Kaylee came face to face with someone wearing a character costume was at Cameron’s birthday party earlier this year. We held his party at a pizza place with an attached arcade. Their mascot is a giant red dog, and he came in while we were eating our pizza to wish Cameron a […]
Sometimes you hit a point where you just need to get out of the house. Friday was that day. The kids had been out of school for a full week by then and except for the very brief trip we made to Matt’s parent’s house on Christmas day we had not left the house at […]
Christmas morning, 7:00 am. My eyes flutter open and I realize that something is amiss. It takes a moment for my groggy mind to wrap itself around the problem, but finally things click into place. It’s silent in my house. No stampede of footsteps, no screeches of joy and amazement, nothing. The cogs in my […]
Christmas Eve. A time of joy, a time of love, a time for family, and in my case a time to work my tail off. My family and I had decided to host our Christmas celebration at my house this year because I have a finished basement full of toys that we can send the […]
As a child, the last few days leading up to Christmas can be absolute torture. It seems like each day lasts a week or longer. You can see the presents under the tree, and the temptation to open them gets stronger with every minute. For my brother and I growing up, by the time my […]
It’s all about me. Or at least it should be. And I make sure that it IS all about me on at least one day per year..my birthday. I have only two requests on my birthday…1)Attention, and lots of it. 2)Cake, because what’s a birthday without a little cake to mark the occaision. (and it […]
Crazy busy. Those two words pretty well sum up my last 5 days. Not only was this Christmas weekend but it was my birthday weekend as well, and we all know what a princess I am when my birthday rolls around. I really have no excuse for not getting on the computer, the kids have […]
Change…that seems to be the only constant in our lives. I hit upon this topic briefly in Time Marches On, but now as the end of the year is fast approaching I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the events that made up 2012. 2012 was… …a year of change: […]
Where did Diary of a Mom come from? Well it all started with Brendan really. The first few years of Brendan’s life were very hard on us. We were treading in terretories never before experienced by ourselves or our families. At the time we didn’t have a clear picture of what exactly was wrong with […]
Diary of a mom...grade 3 and beyond 