Now I know why people leave the grieving alone. Sure, the first few days, even the first week, there are phone calls, visitors, flowers, meals, and cards. Then after the funeral you are left alone with your thoughts. Those horrible thoughts of what-if and why-me. Its been three years since I […]
Driving home from school today I nearly crashed the car. Lainy Ann said something so startling, something I was totally unprepared to hear, something that caused me to jerk the steering wheel. Fortunately we were on a small side street with no cars parked on the street because I swerved into the oncoming […]
Our baby gear lasted through 3 children. I’m actually impressed we got so much use out of it. But this time around Alexander is getting all new stuff. Last night he got his new swing; Fisher-Price Rainforest swing.
Now the main reasons for this purchase was because he isn’t sleeping very long at […]
I don’t normally do diary type entries that just repeat the day. I prefer my entries to be stories rather than a report. Even so, I have been sitting on this entry for 2 weeks now. I wanted to post something, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. So please […]
Each year from September 14 - September 22 I grieve. I shop for nothing, mope about everything and spontaneously cry. I generally feel sorry for myself, for our family and dwell on what could have been.
But here it is three years later and I didn’t do that. I planned ahead and gathered […]
Happy Birthday, Connor!! Today he is four years old. It seems so grown up today, but in a few years four-years-old will seem so little.
He has really shown how grown up he has become in the last few weeks. He has been helping out William and playing with him, even […]
Now that Alexander is 4 weeks old I am having him lay on the floor so he can practice rolling over. Spending too much time in the bouncy just doesn’t promote that kind of movement. If I am going to be gone from the room for a long period of time I BUCKLE […]
Today was the morning we were going to make green eggs and ham (did I mention the ham had to be green too?). In the afternoon we were going to make fresh lemonade too. It would be a fun day of cooking with the kids.
As I was told yesterday the eggs were not […]
Connor has been really enthralled with Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham”. We have the book on CD and at least once a day he puts the CD in and ‘reads’ his book. He has discovered that we have multiple copies of the book and has spent time collecting them all.
We went to […]
Today was the first day of school for the three big kids. Lainy Ann started at the public school; 1st grade! Connor is in pre-k in the ‘big school’ at our preschool and William is starting in the potty-training class. It was quite an effort to get all 6 of us dressed, […]