Bounce!

Monday Cade had an extra day off for his winter break that his siblings didn’t get so we decided to have one more big hoorah before he had to return to the classroom. (At the time we didn’t know the weather would be bad overnight and he ended up with a snow/ice day on Tuesday) [...]

Saturday Evening Post

Cade was my little entertainer as a youngster. I’m not sure if it stemmed from his early years of Kindermusik classes or not. I’m pretty sure it may have played a part in his undeniable need to be acknowledged every time he performed. I’m not talking about a real get up on stage and do [...]

To Him I Am Special/Wordful Wednesday

The following photos were taken at Cades “Special Person’s Day” at school. Every year Cade’s school has what they call “special person’s day”. It is always on Veterans Day and they can choose to invite the most special person to them. Most children choose a grandparent and many of them are veterans, but this year [...]

Baby. . . .It’s Cold Outside

Freezing! That was me on Saturday morning. I didn’t think much about what the weather would be like on Saturday morning when I went to work on Friday evening. We went straight to the soccer field after leaving work. Dressed in scrubs. Anyone who wears scrubs for their job knows that you may as well [...]

Wordful Wednesday

Aaaaahhhh, the holidays are upon us. You may wonder what about this photo has anything to do with the holidays. I’ll tell you. My kids aren’t your typical get up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning kind of kids. In reality I almost always have to wake them to open gifts. Last Christmas [...]

Another Milestone

My baby is learning cursive. I guess I had forgotten that that is something learned in 2nd grade. It seems only yesterday that his big brother Cory was learning to write this way. At that time I was hoping that writing in cursive would somehow improve the chicken scratches that he produced while printing. It [...]

Terror In The Night

See the face in the photo? This face does not always look this way. Matter of fact this face looks completely opposite of what you see here at times. I’m referring to a time in the night after a rough day of play and when he’s gotten over-tired or sometimes even too hot while sleeping. [...]

Fall Foliage Festival

Last night Chris, Cade & I went to the annual Fall Foliage Festival in Martinsville. Cade is one of those kids that loves to ride all the carnival rides, well most anyway. He won’t go on anything that goes upside-down he says. I’m not quite understanding why he won’t ride these when he’ll ride anything [...]

Are We In California Yet?

I didn’t get a thing accomplished this week that I set out to do while Chris went home to California. The day I planned to paint the exterior of my doors it rained. The next day I planned to try and stain the doors, but it was too cold to leave my windows open. Being [...]

Under The Weather – Updated

My youngest male child came dragging up the driveway with not a lick of energy yesterday afternoon. He entered the front door and promptly threw himself onto the couch and burst into tears that he didn’t want homework. I took one look at his flushed face and felt his forehead. Hot it was. His temperature [...]