Warning: There is going to be a LOT of bathroom talk in this post. If pee makes you sick you probably should move along. One of my very favorite ways to start the morning is by stepping in a puddle of pee. I especially love it when it is still dark and I’m wearing socks.… Read More Pee Puddles
I literally whisper yelled the sentence “STOP trying to squeeze off your sister’s head!” during church today. More specifically I whisper yelled this during the closing prayer, just an FYI things are pretty quiet during prayers. Today was another amazing church day, I thought that with time AsthmaMan’s church behavior would improve… no, I thought… Read More “Stop Trying to Squeeze Off Your Sister’s Head!”: The Spreadsheets Do Church Part II
Harry Potter was with me as I got ready for church this morning. For some reason church makes me super self conscious, every week I go into my closet and draw the conclusion that all my clothes are ugly. I know it makes no sense, no one cares, no one notices, logically I understand this,… Read More “Does this dress make me look chubby?”
Since there is no school tomorrow I thought this was the perfect opportunity to introduce my kids to “spooks in the dark”, the terrifying and amazing game from my childhood. When I suggested this to Mr. Spreadsheets he looked at me like I was crazy.
I think I could handle dinner better if it was an every other day sort of thing. Like if we ate on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and on the other days I just handed them a granola bar.… Read More How can I “win” at dinner?
My oldest child goes to a charter school that gives out grades to kindergartners (which is idiotic). He comes home from school with graded spelling tests! They don’t have happy faces or gold stars, they have percentages. I kinda thought kindergarten was the place where you acclimate to school and learn to use glitter and… Read More How High Should the Bar Be?
I want to say that parenting brings out my creative side because I’m one of those awesome parents that lets their kids paint at home… nope that is why my kids go to preschool (thank you awesome teachers!). Discipline brings out my creative side. Traditional punishments don’t work at our house, threats of punishment don’t… Read More Parenting Brings Out My Creative Side
First off, the answer to that question is clearly a big fat no. I can’t control my children. It’s not that I haven’t tried, it’s just that there are some situations where I really fail miserably.
The little kids at our church sing a song with the line “reverence is more than just quietly sitting”. Can we take a few minutes and chat about kids and church. Our family goes to church every week, we’ve been going to church every week… well forever. So at this point I’d say that my… Read More “Reverence Is More Than Just Quietly Sitting”: The Spreadsheets Do Church Part 1
Cultivating Chaos 