Happy June 1! God Loves Moms is in bookstores today. My author copies came in the mail on Friday–they look great! Holding a completed book is not unlike holding a newborn baby. Which makes the ten month birthday of Nate–and God Loves Moms on the same day–so appropriate. If you like God Loves Moms (or...Continue Reading
Here’s our big kid drinking poolside. He turned ten months this weekend. And I marveled at everything he’s learned… …it’s fun to throw food out of his high chair. …it’s even more fun to give it to the dog. …at least five words (mama, dada, dog, car, ball). …tentative cruising. …folding his hands before meals...Continue Reading
Sam and Ellie celebrated the big FOUR this week at their school. Like summer birthday kids the world over, they participated in the confusing task of bringing their treats a month early since “No, it’s not your birthday. No one goes to school on your birthday so you’re bringing them today.” This baffled Sam, who...Continue Reading
Oh My. These teachers are killing me. Since when did the end of the year become a huge cry fest? Celebrations of learning complete with slide shows and sappy, sappy songs by Kenny Chesney and teary speeches about how you have to hold onto your kids and how little time we have with them. But...Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago, Sam and Ellie’s teacher came over for dinner and to read the twins (and Catie, of course) stories. At the school’s annual GALA, we had bid on her and her special story time. The kids loved having their favorite teacher there to see their house. Today is the last day of...Continue Reading
…Catie graduated from Kindergarten. …the twins were still in diapers. …I was bigger than a house. …Nate was said house. That’s what I remember. It’s amazing what I’ve forgotten. Mostly because I’m not a forgetter. Friends call me when they can’t remember the name of some random person. M asks me when he needs the...Continue Reading
Never again will Sam and Ellie be so…twinny. The exact same size. Nearly the same profile. Identical stances. Similar expressions. Really, I could fill a whole blog about the wonders of raising twins. And the struggles, of course. One struggle we’re going through right now is when to separate them. Not in school. We’re not...Continue Reading
Survival. That’s our mantra around here until summer vacation. Our mode of survival involves the tried-and-true method of discipline loved by the parents the world over… “No, no, no, no…YES!” That is, restricting a certain item (for this illustration, the pictured umbrella) for weeks. “Mommy, can I play with the umbrellas?” “Absolutely not.” “Please can...Continue Reading
When we bought this house a little over two years ago, we were in awe of the fact it had a pool. Is awe the right word? Does that invoke excitement…with a healthy dose of fear and uncertainty? Even though I grew up on an island, where swimming pools in the 1970s and ’80s were...Continue Reading
It’s been a good week for the Hergenrader girls. Actually, it’s been a good week for the Hergenrader boys, too, but this post is about the girls. That’s Ellie, leading the boys in fire-fighting safety at the fire truck ride yesterday (more about that in another post). Catie bridged to be a Brownie this week...Continue Reading
