Home for a winter holiday!

(this post needs a subtitle – And We All Survived!) Okay, I jest, but we all know that being home for extended periods of time with the kids can be a dream or go south very quickly.  We’re human, we have bad days, we make mistakes.  Locking us all in a house for a week runs a thin line between fun and frantic most days – luckily we land in fun most often.  It’s a relief to get to the end of the day...

Mixed beans for 2.26.12

The fact that I’m writing my weekly recap post early Sunday morning instead of Friday afternoon probably tells you all you need to know about my week. What a week!  My oldest out of school, the three year old with just two mornings of daycare, and a husband who ended up out of town for a few days.  Busy, busy with plenty of early mornings and late nights to spice things up.  We kicked off the week with a made up...

Hard questions

There are some things for which you can never prepare yourself. When you read books while pregnant, none of them go into how to handle the grown up end of a million discussions and questions. Why is that?  I read endless factoids and suggestions on all kinds of topics that never even came up in pregnancy nor my first year with a baby.  Little did I know I’d be wishing for a manual for all the talking.  For the...

Mixed beans for 2.17.12

Whew!  Friday, where have you been all week? On Tuesday, I thought it was Wednesday.  Wednesday, I thought it was Thursday and Thursday I stopped keeping track.  Things are good this week, mostly, but somehow I got lost in the week.  I think having Valentine’s Day on Tuesday did it – getting valentines organized to hand out, etc just sort of added a day to my week somehow. We also had the excitement of a...

The great laptop drowning of 2012

This post was tentatively titled “Why I didn’t yell at the kid who dumped coffee in my laptop” and also ”kijiji is no place for your adorable children” but I figured I’d start at the beginning. So after a bit of crazy week, I got up Saturday morning with my youngest, and took her downstairs for some quiet playtime.  My oldest was already up, getting in some Wii time in the basement, and...