Category: Mom’s Journal

  • Amazing concert, amazing family, amazing song

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    Last night my husband and I took our boys to an amazing concert by a family bluegrass band called Cherryholmes and we were blown away. The music was beautiful, energetic and you could tell this family really knows not only how to play music together, but how to have fun together. Their excitement for the…

  • What is with the girly clothes-changing thing?

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    My daughter totally cracks me up…  and is also driving me batty. What is up with all the clothes changing? It is a rare naptime or bedtime that she is wearing the same thing upon wake-up that she was wearing when I kissed her good night. Why is that? And, by the piles I find…

  • Getting ready to be Cupid

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    Before I officially begin this post, I need to ask my neighbors to leave. Sorry guys.  I just don’t want to ruin it for you. Are you gone? Okay, now that it’s just us, and you don’t live in my neighborhood, I have to share what’s brewing at the 144 house: This morning on the…

  • Where can I get some patience?

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    I am not the most patient parent in the world… or even in my house sometimes. But I am working on it, as you could tell from my 2009 goals. I yell less than I used to, not that I am proud to write that. But I am trying to go with honesty here. Even…

  • I need to throw Baby Jesus away… but how can I?

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    Check out this Baby Jesus my two year-old “made” at church in December: And she loves him. She kisses him, hugs him, and cares for him often better than her baby dolls. But he is a potato. When is he going to start smelling bad? He’s already getting a little soft. But he is pretty…