Posted in Raising kids on Apr 20th, 2010
We bought a car last week. Not just any car. A minivan. I am now a mom with a minivan. Next thing you know I’ll be signing my kids up for soccer. Won’t that be swell? One of the reasons I was opposed to having a third child was that it meant we would have [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Apr 16th, 2010
I had another bad day on Wednesday. I woke up at 3 a.m. with a raging head cold and couldn’t get back to sleep. When my kids woke up, they were both a little under the weather and cranky. My son fussed all through math. I yelled at him. My daughter threw a fit when [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Apr 13th, 2010
Yell at your daughter when she spills water on the table. Yell at her some more when she cries because you’re yelling at her. Yell that there’s no reason to be upset, it’s just water for the love of God. *** Yell at your son when he drips water on the floor because he got [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.