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Sledding….check! Christmas tree….check! Cookies…check! and clean, clean, clean…check! Part of the reason that I posted the pvc playhouse is because I knew we’d be taking it down for Christmas. Oh, the trauma…the weeping. “Mommy, I hate Christmas, I don’t ever want to have Christmas again!” and more weeping… It took us almost two hours to [...]

Like my friend Pam says, we will always have dust, but children…they vanish before our very eyes as they become teenagers and adults. Sometimes I try to leap into the future imagining my kids as adults. Will I do a good job helping them transform into grown-ups? Will I be proud of them? What will [...]

Today I took Nathan for an echo and an EKG. He tolerated the echo fairly well, only pulled off one monitor…. I had a cup of gold fish crackers and the tech played a Barney video and he managed to cooperate. But we had to abandon the EKG. The technician would get 3-4 clips on, [...]

Are you looking for a really cool present for your kids that does not cost much? Everyone who comes to our house for the first time is drawn to the big playhouse in our living room. It’s a kid magnet and parents can’t resist sticking their head in to see too. So many people have [...]

“Mommy, do you know what I was saying to myself while you were outside the van?” “No, Miika, I don’t.” “I told myself that Mommy was turning into a witch.” “Oh?” I don’t remember what I was yelling at her about, but she was provoked. Aye, aye, aye… I guess the pressure of recent days, [...]

Just like Daddy…   These past few days have been almost indescribable, sleepless for sure. I think we picked up about a dozen germs at the butterfly museum. Miika has had pink eye and an upset stomach. Nathan has an ear and sinus infection. Two doctor visits in 4 days and the counter is lined [...]

Miika has been stuck in the house for the past 3 days with pink eye and now a tummy ache… Even though she has complained about being bored, she is very good at occupying herself. We keep a little cup of modeling clay on the kitchen table where she has created a host of amazing [...]

Miika earned 20 stickers on her “Happy Chart” and got to pick an adventure…she chose the Peggy Notebaert Museum, AKA the Butterfly Museum. On Thursdays it’s free, so after two of Nathan’s morning therapies, we packed up and went. Nathan practically worships butterflies, so I was very excited to see his reaction to literally 2000 [...]