Right now, Andrea and I are having such a difficult time with Benjamin’s kindergarten teacher and it is tempting to pull him out of his current school and put him in the new school that he’ll be attending, anyway, now, instead of next year. This not be the usual post […]
Matthew turns four next week and last night, Andrea took Benjamin to Toys R Us to pick out a present for him. Well, as soon as Ben saw the Angry Bird plush toys (“Angry Bird fluffys”) he decided that was what Matthew had to have. Lately, the boys have been […]
Last Friday, Benjamin walked into the office just as Andrea and I were watching video of the tsunami in Japan. “What are you watching,” he asked, his eyes glued to the screen…It was too late to turn it of. “Well, there was an earthquake in a country called Japan that […]
Near our house, there is a company that does a travelling petting zoo, so we always see the animals around their property. The animals include ponys, donkeys, all sorts of ducks and geese and llamas. The other day, we were driving by and we saw a pony trying to eat […]
In the last 24 + hours I have been horrified by the images coming in from Japan. I am sure, like many others, I am deeply disturbed and saddened by the videos, pictures and news reports. And, I feel, for some reason, that it is hitting close to home, even […]
I’m not really sure what triggered it…We were mid-movie/pizza night when Benjamin turned to Matthew and said, “Hey Matt…You know what tomorrow is? Saturday. We get to spend the whole day in our pajamas and we get to sleep much later and we can play all day and we don’t […]
Due to Matthew’s speech issues, I do my best to initiate conversations with him, trying to get him to use his words and learn how to communicate with others. I use to do this every night with Ben…I would tuck him in, read him a story and then talk about […]
To me, it is just amazing how you can be driving along one day and you hear a song that just instantly transports you to a moment in time, bringing back emotions and memories in a way that it just stirs something deep down inside of you. I think we […]
My kids, like all kids, want to know everything about everything and the word “why” is central to their vocabulary. Often times, we get the unending “why” questions from both of them and, after a long car ride with them, I will be exhausted as I attempt to satisfy their questions. For […]
One recent morning, like most mornings, I found myself carrying Matthew from my car, into daycare and up two flights of stairs. It’s not something I have really thought about before, it’s just something I have done. For some reason, it struck me what I was doing, and that it […]
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