Yesterday I bought a new dresser for $50 via Craig’s List. Dom thinks I might have paid a bit more than it was worth. But to me having his clothes in a real dresser rather than in 6 boxes and piles all over the bedroom is priceless. This...
A few of the many pictures my dad snapped while he was here.
Wrapping books to mail out for Book Mooch I had a scrap of brown paper left over and gave it to Bella when she came begging. I looked up a little later when she was whining her frustrated noise to see her wrapping her toy remote control in the strip...
Because I know my dad is going through Bella-withdrawal… Of course, I completely forgot to pull out my camera to take pictures of them together until the last morning he was here. Story of my life: my dad is always the one behind the camera...
We had our friends Paul and Rose over for dinner last night…. and their son, Joseph, of course, who is six months older than Bella. I was curious as to how the two toddlers would interact. The got along amazingly well. I’ve never seen...
My dad noticed Isabella’s fascination with the magnets on our fridge and commented that we didn’t have very many. So he decided to rectify the situation. We did a quick search and found a couple of nice sets of wooden magnets: one set of...
Just now she went down for a nap with a cuddle, a little rocking, a homemade lullaby. No nursing, no screaming or crying, just a sweet toddler slumbering in my arms. I never thought this day would come! In the past week in addition to her usual...
This post is a response to this one at radical catholic mom’s blog; but it stands alone and you don’t need to read any of the preceding conversation to get what I’m saying. Thanks, rcm for a stimulating discussion! The concept of...
A good discussion is taking place in the comment box here (minus a few snarky commenters) as radical catholic mom struggles to understand masculinity in marriage and especially the ideas of authority and leadership. (And conversely the idea of...
No more Bella spoiling. But his present arrived today: a box of wooden refrigerator magnets, 52 of them, a full set of capital and lower case letters in bright red, yellow, green and blue. Isabella was enchanted and stood there in full coat and hat...
