April13/IMG_0449The day had apparently just begun when I posted earlier. As I was cleaning up the clothing spilt from Thomas’ dresser, I heard a loud crash downstairs. Aiden knocked over a pole lamp and shattered the florescent bulb. As I was vacuuming the glass, Aiden emptied a deck of cards onto the stairs, and then […]

misc/jackjacksitter Within 20 minutes of getting out of bed, Aiden has already unplugged the telephone in the computer room, dropped Tom’s laptop and pulled his brother’s dresser down on top of himself – pinning him to the floor. If there is a sharp object, it will be found by Aiden. Laura was over for lunch […]

misc/skippy…all over the living room. A Nintendo game controller, two couches, a coffee table, a television screen and two throw rugs were unwillingly participants in an apparent fun-spreading this afternoon. The moment I stepped out of the bathroom and towards the stairs, I smelled peanut butter. When my footsteps were audible on the stairs, Thomas […]

Tomorrow is PresWIC (a gathering of the Women In the Church from all of the different churches in our Presbytery), and I’m really looking forward to attending. I am particularly looking forward to seeing Barbara Thompson again. While we were at the leadership training conference in Atlanta, she and Susan Hunt and I spent time […]

On Wednesday, the kids and I threw a costume party here! Costumes were required for children and moms! There were nine moms and twenty kids. Everyone brought food to add to a smorgasbord lunch, which included munchies (chips, crackers, pretzels), cookie-cutter cut peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, fruit salad. For desert, we had jello […]

Always trying to improve. Here’s a thought on parenting. If a parent gives a child a task to completed that is out of their range of sight, and the parents comes back a half-hour later and it’s not done and the child says that they “forgot” that their parent had told them to do something, […]

Part II: So how does one move from maintenance to nurturing? First, we must realize that children are not ours, but the Lord’s. Yes, we carried our children for an average of nine months. Yes, we are responsible for their care. We are very, very involved in the raising of our children. Yet, while we […]

I recently subscribed to a Christian listserv called “QuiverFull” for parents of large families. I have found it very encouraging to hear everyone’s ideas on ways to take care of all of their children and yet prevent individual children from slipping through the cracks. One of the recent threads was on responding to people who […]

Tom would kill me for posting this… except that he’s not here! The monkeys have taken over the radio station. — “Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send it to a whole bunch of people (including the person who sent it to you–me 🙂 The theory is that you will […]