Somehow I thought that the first time cereal was flung across the kitchen it would be flung by Isabella, not me. But today as I was putting her cereal in the microwave the bowl went flying and cereal splatted on the wall, the drawers, Bella’s...
Well, there’s the love. Also the way the older children step in and lift the burdens for mom. And the way having younger siblings teachs responsibility. Take this charming anecdote from Danielle Bean: �First you kneel down in there and say...
Bella is now 17 pounds, 1 ounce (50th percentile for weight) and 26 inches long (80th percetile for height). She got four shots today, poor thing. Three immunizations and one flu shot. It’s a terrible thing to hold your child down while...
She slept beautifully in the new crib, in her new bedroom.
One wake-up at ten and another at 4:45. That’s not half bad.
And I didn’t lose a bit of sleep over it, either.
In response to Julie D.‘s post about The Dante to Dead Man Walking Project Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader’s Journey Through the Christian Classics by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Julie posts the list of books suggested by the author...
Yesterday, we finally got to the store and purchased a mattress for Bella’s crib. Tonight will Isabella’s first night in her new crib, and in her own bedroom. We’ll see how she does. She went down easily enough. I hope she’ll...
So today was a gorgeous day. High around 66. I wore a t-shirt and sandals to the park. And while I was there, the phone rang. It was my sister in Dallas, calling to tell me it was snowing there. We haven’t yet had snow this year. Very odd.
You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap! Do you deserve your high school diploma?Create a Quiz via Love2Learn...
I was talking to my dad yesterday and he mentioned that he’d just read my previous post on Santa Claus. One of the things that struck me while we were discussing the topic was his statement that children live in fantasy. I suppose I was very...
The other night I was in the basement doing laundry. I tripped and fell and must have cried out. Immediately I heard Dom’s chair push back from his desk in the office overhead and his footsteps pounding as he rushed out the door and down the...