Oh, the influence of the internet…

We (dh, myself and our twin dds) had just put everyone to bed this evening and we thought about how much we would enjoy having the fragrant aroma of banana bread fill our home not to mention how good it would taste tomorrow. We had ripe bananas and a craving…But! We [...]

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Yep, I am a corney mom…

but, hey…that is what makes the lives of my children so interesting.
It has been kinda miserable outside lately and it is showing in the kids. “Aw Mom…Time to go to bed…again? We just did that yesterday!” ..they cried…
So I played this a few dozen times and dipped the kids into bed… (scroll down [...]

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Boys…I just don’t get it

What is it about boys that makes them so unwilling to do housework. They would rather deliberately take the long way around me than to bend over and pick up a book…
I can yell “15 minute pick-up and then we go out!” and they will disappear faster than ice cream on a hot [...]

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Brother in trouble

My 2.5yo dd peeked out the back door this morning.
“Oh-oh! WHAT a MESS” “Oh brother!”
She runs into the living room and starts grilling 4yo brother. Not quite getting her point, I take her back to the door and ask her what she saw. The best I could interpret in toddler language [...]

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Hullo…We have cowlds…

What to do when you can’t see
or hear
or smell
and you have a toddler? and one that is toilet training at that… she has a way with things that come out of her other end that never fails to astound and leave me speechless.
This is one of those questions I have to ask God [...]

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Mommmyyy…my pencil won’t make numbers!

Sunshine boy(4) was struggling with his pencil today. He kept changing his mind about what direction some of the numbers went in. He wanted to list his numbers from 1-10 but that darned pencil was giving him trouble.
So…
We threw away the pencil…into the pencil box…
and…
whipped out the GREEN pipe cleaners!
I took out a [...]

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