Archive for the ‘Mommy Moment’ Category
Inspiration can be found everywhere! Today I found it at the end of my driveway in a gentleman by the name of Troy Adams. I happened to look out the window as I saw a big camper stop at the end of my driveway and a man wearing a bright green shirt climbed in. The camper had a website emblazoned on the side with the address TroysRun.com, curious I looked it up where I learned a little about Troy’s story [...]
Naptime. Oh, how I love the hours of 1pm to 3pm. If my children are going to sleep, that is the time they will do it. It’s common knowledge that if you phone my house, ring my door bell or otherwise disturb my household between those hours, you better have a good reason or suffer my wrath! My children don’t sleep very much. It’s probably the most frustrating part of my day. This past month we have made great strides [...]
My daughter is a funny thing! Today she was smothering me in kisses while I was trying to rock Baby Brother to sleep. Try as I might to get him to sleep (a rare occurance at my house on the best of days), she would wake him up by smothering me in kisses. After a half hour of this I decided that she should stop just long enough so that I could get him down, but she wouldn’t listen to [...]
Sunday morning on the way into church my 2 year old says to me…”What’s your name?”. Thinking that this was a great opportunity to teach her my name just in case she ever got lost I told her that it was Elizabeth. She looked totally befuddled for a minute before she giggled and said…”Don’t be silly, your name is Mommy!”. No matter how much I tried to convince her that Mommy wasn’t my name she would giggle and insist that [...]
My daughter is a regular chatterbox. Even though she is only two it seems like she has been talking forever. This week she has been building my ego…well, building may not be exactly the right word. This week while we were playing in her princess castle she informed me that I was to play the part of the “fat giant”. Score: Zee 1 Mommy 0. Then the next game we were playing was the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Who did [...]
