I find myself looking for little things I can control, things like how clean the kitchen floor is. I use these little things as a way to make up for the control I don’t have over other areas of my life… like how long it takes to leave the house. … Read More Cleaning for Control
The little Spreadsheets have been to plenty of restaurants. They love In’N’Out, Chick Fil-A, Firehouse Subs (for the drinks), Rosa’s, and sometimes Phil’s Ice House. All of these places have one thing in common- no waiters. … Read More The Spreadsheets Eat Out
My boys love to swim and we live in Texas, so swim lessons are a “must”. If you spend as much time at the pool as we do, swim lessons are an investment… Read More Adventures at Swim Lessons
I am a “Mom of Littles”.
This is an elite group. We are tired, often frustrated, and frequently covered in someone else’s food and or bodily fluids (if you’re a mom of littles you know what a I mean).… Read More The “Mom of Littles” Club
AsthmaMan had an EPIC tantrum at the store today. It was a thing of beauty, one of the those tantrums made for the movies, or at least for YouTube.… Read More Tantrums, Lollipops, and the Worst Mother Ever
When your kid has an off day, it’s like being trapped in a burning building. You can hear the alarms going off, you want to get out of the way and on to safety, but you are stuck, everything you do makes it worse. … Read More Getting through the “Off” days
Over the past 2.5 years I’ve learned a very important lesson, while it is good for me to get down and play with my sweet kids, it is ok if they play together without me. It is ok if they are a little bit bored and have to run their own games, it is ok if they are a little bit frustrated with each other and have to work out their own conflicts, it is ok if some of the games they pick aren’t what I would have chosen.… Read More Sibling Friends: Learning to Let Go of the Mom Guilt
cleanliness was a serious source of contention for them… you know that and the sleep deprivation.… Read More Finding a “Housekeeper”
Kids are funny, heck adults are funny too! Sometimes the things we are the most excited about, are the things we end up enjoying the least because we’ve built them up so big in our minds! I’m counting today as a win, we made it out and back alive with our sanity mostly intact.… Read More How do you know when it’s time to leave?
Cultivating Chaos 