I was the first one awake today (rare on a weekend). I went downstairs and started a load of laundry, emptied the dishwasher and made a dozen pumpkin muffins. As I was putting the tray of muffins in the oven, I was joined by John. “Mom? I didn’t know you were awake!” He worked on… Continue reading Sunday morning
Over Christmas break, John and Gillian went to see Frozen with Aunt Betty and Grandma. Gillian loved going to the movie. I stopped at the bookstore tonight to get John and Daddy a new book. While I was there I bought Gillian a Frozen book. Before bedtime tonight I gave Gillian the book. She said… Continue reading Frozen
I have writers block. My kids are wonderful and amazing and normally provide me with lots of cute little stories. But I have nothing. The past couple of days have just been typical days with nothing out of the ordinary or special. While there has been nothing exciting going on in my house, there have still… Continue reading writers block
On John’s first day of school, he came home and told us “We are going to have a music concert in June!” (check out First Day of First Grade). Well he was wrong, the concert wasn’t in June, it was in January! The concert was on Friday. John has been talking about the concert for… Continue reading Sunshine
Gillian and I picked John up from school today. In the car he said “Guess what? One of my tooths is loose!” I said “No way!” He was so excited and told me “The first time I noticed it was at lunch. My tooth hurt and I asked someone to look at it. And they… Continue reading The tooth
I found Gillian at school tonight sitting at a table coloring. She looked up at me and said “I coloring a picture!” I said “That’s great but we have to go get John.” She said “Ok. I gotta finish it.” She colored a little more and then handed me a crayon and said “Write my… Continue reading The picture
On Sunday, John and Gillian came upstairs to get some juice boxes. Gillian asked John “Can you bring mine downstairs?” John said “No.” Gillian said “I can’t carry it! It’s too heavy.” John said “Fine, if I carry it, I get to drink it!” Gillian screamed “No! It’s mine!” John said “Well then you gotta… Continue reading The juice box
I ran out this afternoon to do a few errands and I was surprised to see the kids and Daddy in the front yard. As I pulled in the driveway, I rolled the window down and asked “What are you guys doing?” Gillian smiled and said “We’s making a snowman!” We attempted to make a… Continue reading the snowman
Friday was a snow day for the entire family. I woke up early and John was the first one to join me. He was super excited about no school. Gillian, on the other hand, didn’t wake up until 9:30. The kids were good all day. They didn’t fight and they didn’t really ask to watch… Continue reading snow day
This morning it was hard to wake the kids up. I knew it would be rough and I sent them to bed at 7:30 the night before. But it didn’t help. I went in to wake up John. He just grunted at me and said “Why do I have to go back to school?” Gillian,… Continue reading back to school
John and Gill went up a hill 