On being a little brother

Rose, to Henry, trying to get him to move so she had room to carry a footstool down the stairs: “Get out of here, li’l buddy!”

A Sunday morning Deep Thought by Mabel

“There are more blessings in this world than every grain of sand in every desert and on every beach, because every one of those grains of sand is a blessing, and then there’s everything else.”

Deep thoughts on groceries

Yesterday as I was putting away my large load of groceries — which always takes about an hour to finish (by the time I put away things we have to store in the basement because they don’t fit in the kitchen, rotating older stuff forward and new stuff towards the back (no I don’t have [...]

Did/didn’t

What did happen: Entering the grocery store, I felt tired and nauseated and didn’t know if I could finish my shopping.
What didn’t happen: I vomited, passed out, and went to the hospital in an ambulance.
What did happen: Closing the back door of the minivan down on my large load of groceries, I [...]

Deciphering Disney

Rose: “Mom, should I follow my heart and let my dreams come true, like in Cinderella?”
Me: “Yeah. What are your dreams?”
Rose: “I don’t know.”

Pregnant dreams

Last night I dreamed that I was on a cruise, at least a day out already, and had been given a very small size limit for my luggage but easily met it, but then when I went to my tiny suitcase for a change of clothes, I found that I had packed a bunch of [...]

Scripted by Disney

I was just putting Rose down for her nap and asked for a hug and kiss. She gave me a nice big hug, and I said, “You have so much love in your heart.” She answered, “And I should just follow my heart, and let my dreams come true.”

But a new swingset would be fun, too

Several weeks ago for Family Home Evening we gave Isaac and Mabel pencil and paper, then told them we had a surprise for them, gave them a couple of clues (I’ve now forgotten what the clues were,) and had them write down their guesses as to what the surprise might be. Here was Mabel’s [...]

Queen for a day

Back in June, Rose was jealous of Mabel’s invitation to a birthday party, so when Mabel went, we had our own little “princess party” here at home. We got out the dress-ups to dress as princesses, but Rose preferred to wear her lamb costume (from about two Halloweens ago,) so Henry followed her lead [...]

I do all my best writing when I should be sleeping

I’ve spent some time thinking about what I want this blog to be (family history? personal journal? opinion essay? light-hearted entertainment?) and the one thing I so far seem to have decided for certain is that I want to do it for fun and not as a chore. So far this [...]