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
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 brought home a scholastic book order form a few weeks ago. We let him pick out a few books. As I was writing the check, he noticed that there was a My Little Pony book in the flyer. He asked me “Can I get this for Gill?” I said “Of course, and we can… Continue reading The book
I was talking to Gillian tonight. I asked her if she knew who was coming to school tomorrow. She said “You?” I wish I was going to visit her school tomorrow, but I told her no. And then I told her that the penguins were coming to visit. Every year, TLC has the penguins from… Continue reading Penguins
I picked Gillian up from school today. She was playing babies with Nicholas and Clarissa. When she saw me she jumped up and hugged me. Then she said “I got candy!” She was so excited! I asked her why, and she said “Nicholas came. And him left us candy. We put out our shoes (and… Continue reading St. Nick
Daddy picked up the kids from school tonight. When Gillian and Daddy picked up John, Gillian went running into the gym to find him. She hugged him and they bumped heads. When she retold the story to me later she said “We bump heads. I cry. But I no go to timeout!” I got Gillian… Continue reading Typical night
Today was our first day back in our routine. Eve though we put the kids to bed early last night, it was hard to wake up the kids this morning. I woke up John first, he said “But I don’t wanna get up!” I gave him a few extra minutes to stay under the covers… Continue reading Back to the routine
Tomorrow we are going to Disney World. But tonight, Daddy picked up the kids and said “Ok. We are going home and we will eat dinner and then take a bath and then go to bed and then get up and get dressed for school.” John responded and said “I think we are getting started… Continue reading Wrong foot
Last week John had a special program at school where he learned about the golden rain tree. He asked me “Do you know about the golf rain tree?” I told him no. He said “Well they are amazing!” He then proceeded to tell me everything that he learned. “Did you know that we have 10… Continue reading Golden rain tree
I picked up the kids tonight from school. As we were leaving John’s school, John said “There’s a spider in here.” It was pretty dark in the car, so I said “Are you sure?” John said “Yea. I can see it. Mom! Get it out of here!” I was driving, and told him “I can’t… Continue reading The Spider
John and Gill went up a hill 