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Blog archives for August, 2008


Archive for August, 2008

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Parachute. Yeah. I know. He talked to Nana tonight to tell her about his school day. Except in his mind he wasn’t there, he proceeded to tell her that he had gone flying with Keith and then jumped out of the plane. I know kids say crazy things once in awhile. Not Aiden. He will [...]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

And Aiden is off to pre-k. Still at his old school. Even though he is five we made the decision to wait a year to make the leap into kindergarten. What’s the point? Life is complicated and hard, I see no reason to push the little guy into it. He’ll figure it out sooner rather [...]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Aunt Monkeys.  Happy Birthday to the kids favorite Aunt Monkey! You are now old enough where I will not say your age. Because that would be rude. Its always rude to bust on your sister for being old especially when she is 5 years younger than your 32 years. Twenty some years ago she was [...]

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

but really shouldn’t. Really working on not letting little things bother me. Here is the first thing…I go a little crazy inside when people look at the kids and say “I don’t know how you do it”.  Do what? Take care of my children? What am I supposed to do lay in bed all day [...]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Or maybe a nice beginning to our last week before school. Kids played outside a lot this weekend as I made a conscious effort to keep them moving. Do you ever wonder why people say conscious effort? Do we ever do things with an unconscious effort?  They came up with a safe new game. They [...]

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Fine. Really, I am. I get asked if I am doing alright a lot. And it is nice to know that people are concerned but honestly, after having two children, adding the baby has been great.  Today I left the dogs in the house and spent some outside with the kids. When I got back [...]

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Charlotte likes to sleep. Really likes to sleep. We are waiting for her to wake up and kick our asses like her brother and sister did. Madeleine and Aiden loved to scream at night, they loved it so much they did it for a couple months. Sometimes still Madeleine will let out a lengthy scream [...]