We have been blessed with quite a few sunny crisp fall days this year. On one day, Z asked me to play with him outside. While we were out there, he asked for me draw with chalk some apples and pumpkins. I asked him-what color? Tall or short? Big or small? Skinny or round? Then…
Last March Z upgraded to a big boy bed. L talked it up, encouraging him that it was so awesome to have a big bed all to himself. Well, then Z was so excited the first few nights that it was tough to calm him down to sleep. We started with a mattress on the…
My son has this toy wood watermelon, attached to it is a worm on a string. Z will take only a few seconds to quickly and frantically weave that worm through all the holes of his watermelon. Then you can guess what’s next: he gets frustrated with all the twists turns and knots he has…
Like last year,we went to a pumpkin patch with our MOPs group. But this year, Z knew what he would be doing. We have read many fall and harvest books about pumpkin patches, farms, and tractor rides. He loved the tractor ride and of course was much more involved in picking out his favorite pumpkin.…
October is all about the Pumpkin for me. I get quite a few good sized cans of the stuff and then get to work on all things pumpkin, spice, and everything autumn nice. This year as usual I did pumpkin bread loafs for friends and fall family get-togethers. Over the years I have experimented with…
This month’s preschool theme was agriculture or as I told Z: farm. The first week we focused on chickens, we learned about eggs, fed chickens and even had hard boiled eggs for snack time. Next we peeled and cored apples the boys had picked, and made apple crisps. We played with bread…
This is a short post I wrote March of this last year. Thought I would share it now: The whining, the real tears, the uncontrollable laughter then screaming. And then today my son bite me. Yes he just took a giant bite out of my second toe. To be fair, it is one with a…
I wrote this awhile ago but it stands true today as well. L I see you. I see you putting away laundry, doing the dishes, taking out the trash, checking the mail. I see you bringing me coffee, checking in on me, saying hi then giving me space. I know that in that time you…
When I was traveling through the Middle East on my semester abroad, there was one phrase that stuck with me “Inshallah”. Translated into English it is close to “God willing or God's will be done”. It was used in any conversation about the future: before or after a plan was made. For example: "I will…
