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Gremlin…not your real name, but boy do you fit it! Your real name actu­ally means “Long Awaited Son”. So why is it, it felt like years to bring you into our world yet it feels like min­utes since we got you? How are you 8!? I was so proud of you when you ripped that […]

I remem­ber OldMan’s first day of 1st grade. He came home ready to tell me all about his day and I was ready to soak it up. My baby wasn’t a cute lit­tle Kindergartner…he was a big boy in 1st grade! He imme­di­ately blurted out, ‘Mom! I get to bring my library books home and […]

This sounds lamely sim­ple but before I started using it, my boys made me gray! Sched­ule Rou­tine. Profound…I know. I took a small dry erase board and put it up in the kitchen with the weeks sched­ule by the hours. This way the boys would wake up and know exactly when some­thing was going to occur. […]

Con­fes­sion: I was hor­ri­ble at read­ing to my chil­dren when they were tiny guys. I couldn’t get them to sit still on my lap so why fight it? Once they got to about 4, they were ready and so was I. I started read­ing to them every night before going to bed. My youngest son […]