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Help. He's growing up. And I am not handling it super well.
Ok, so he's only nine, but he might as well be 19 for all the huffs and closed doors and big hazel eyes dodging mine. When I sit next to him and explain the hows and whys of discipline - how it's all wrapped up in love, how our hopes for him rely on a few boundaries - his long fingers play with fraying jeans
Read moreSometimes, the most imperfect picture represents the truest image of our family dynamic. This photo says, "My mother tortures me. Help me escape."
Yep.
I'll be sharing some of my favourite family photos on Sundays this month. As you can see, we really have a knack for it.
Feel free to post a link to your favourite (or not so favourite) family photo; one with a story to tell, maybe...
The heat is on. Our living room is filled with moving boxes (for fort-making, not yet moving). A million tiny plastic Lego pieces are spread throughout the place. Cartoons in one room, radio theatre in another, and Downton Abbey is in the queue for the unpacking and washing of winter clothes.
For right now, in this moment, we're at peace. And they are pretending and creating and laughing. They're happy.
And cleaning up can wait until tomorrow. Or the next day.
Autumn is here. This is how we're celebrating. How do you celebrate this change of seasons?
It's an easy excuse I use too often.
"Sorry, I can't, I've got the kids."
"Oh, that sounds great, but it's a little too close to naptime."
"I'd love to, really, but, well, you know how toddlers are."
Life with the wee three is tailor-made for excuses of all kinds. They're loud and they're fast and they all run in different directions. They distract and disrupt and yell. Did I mention the biting? Or the falling and the crying? And I'm a mess.
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So some days (ok, some weeks) we don't menu plan.
We go to church with nary a chicken nor a beef roast in the crock pot. This is mostly unintentional. CBS Sunday Morning was on and there was a story about old people collecting art for the sake of art and then there had to be showers and hair washing and three of four wardrobe changes for the girl (red power ranger suit does not a church outfit make), and we had houseguests.
And the weather... well, it was just too beautiful to not take advantage of it.
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