Decided on a vacation recap since I neglected to write barely a single word for a week: luckily, my phone has the capacity to hold my current grand total of 38,930 photos and I can squeak by with killing two birds with one stone by taking a bazillion photos and being able to still post something every day…and, not be that parent on their computer for hours a day while on a family vacation. Well,…
All 4 kids are in private school, but the two little ones go to a school that runs off of a public school schedule. I’ve never totally understood this, but public and private schools run off of totally different vacation schedules. At least in our area, public schools get 1 week of vacation in February and another week in April. Private schools, however, take 2 weeks of vacation in March. That’s it. The…
Look, I get it. I grew up with one of those refrigerators that is so full that there’s a wall of food that you have NO chance of getting through to see what’s being stored behind it. Last year, my closet was so over-capacity that the sheer weight of my clothes was so heavy for my hanging rack that it ripped the entire thing right out of the wall. And, I, literally, carry more food…
Ok, there is just A LOT going on. I mean, the days leading up to Valentine’s Day for me are arguably busier than those of Christmas. Fine, that’s a slight exaggeration, but I am drowning a little bit. In all super fun things like getting to make Maya’s team away game snacks for Valentine’s Day (which sends my creativity into overdrive), making 65 glow stick Valentine’s for all of the kids’ friends and classmates, and…
One thing we’ve drilled into our kids’ heads is this: when someone offers to do something nice for you, and you would like them to do whatever that is, your response should never be, “Sure.” “Do you want me to start your car for you?” “Sure.” It’s like saying, “Sure, if you want to.” Instead, it should be, “Yes, please. Thank you!” “Do you want me to grab you a seltzer while I’m in…
I think it’s important to think in specifics sometimes. I think it’s too easy to sit in Ben’s class and hear him preach to all of us about how we should think in terms of “get to’s” and not “have to’s”. But, when you actually sit down and think about your day and how many times you either said it out loud or even just thought it in some way to yourself, it’s a whole…
I have spent a great deal of time working with a team, most significantly and most recently in the sport of CrossFit. I get how much compromise is involved. I get how fun and hard it can be to balance out so many different personality types. I get how much you need to be willing to give and take from the other members of your team. I get how important it is to have a…
Maya has been sick-ish for the last month or so, and has been going back and forth with me about whether she thinks she should go to the doctor to see if something’s wrong. I haven’t pushed her in either direction because she’s proven to be responsible enough to make that call on her own. Or, so I thought. Tonight, she confessed that she doesn’t want to go to the doctor because she’s nervous he’s…
I’ve been going to physical therapy twice a week, for about an hour and 15 minutes each visit, for the last month or so. The place I go to isn’t like any other PT office I’ve ever gone to or heard about; it’s full of mostly professional baseball players and competitive gymnasts, all of the guys that work there are super laid back and joke around with each other all day long, and they’re constantly…
While I was eating lunch today and Bode was building with his Legos next to me, I asked him, “Hey, what’d you do at the farm today? Did you guys go on your morning hike? What do you do on your hike every day? Do you talk to Cody or do you just walk?” I know, so many questions for a 5 year old boy who’s elbow deep in a Lego project. “Umm…I don’t remember.”…