Category: Parenting
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“Who’s Your Favorite Muppet?” “Hermitty the Frog!!!”
“Who’s your favorite Muppet, Brianne?” “Hermitty the Frog!” She still has no idea why that’s so funny. If I had a dollar for every time I was told by Father Abbot Jerome (RIP) told me to “Be a leader” during Catholic grade school, I’d truly be wealthy. In elementary school, I understood his Mike Tyson…
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What Does A Cow Say…”NO!”
Now that my second daughter has become the household parakeet (repeating every word we say…), I thought it only appropriate to introduce her to the Animal Quiz. My oldest loved this game. Just learning to talk, she felt so accomplished adding new animal noises to her repertoire each morning at the breakfast table. With the…
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“Uh, Ohhhhhhhhhhh…”
My life often feels like a comedy, and my kids say some hilarious stuff. I was acutely aware of that due to a childhood full of babysitting, but it’s even funnier now that my own kids are trying to put my adult words into context in conversation…which clearly takes a detour most of the time.…
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Jellybeans
“You know what I mean jellybean,” I say to Bri a few weeks ago. Immediately, she smirkly replies, “I know we’re very OUT jellybeans, Mom.” I spend so much time trying to extract the positive from every situation that I sometimes neglect to see that I’m completely out. Mom’s aren’t unlike their kids, in a…
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The Very First Birthday…Sprint to the Finish.
“Mom,” says my oldest, Brianne….”IT’S going to be LO LO’S VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!” (Not sure why she adds the word ‘very’ to every phrase…but it’s too cute to correct.) Well I’m out of babies…and hoping to stay that way through this next baby bug (people I know getting pregnant everywhere!!) All of you….keep that contagious…
Sunny&80 