Zane loves to “read” every nap time and evening. He loves to “read” himself to sleep. He will look through the pages over and over. He even memorizes what is on the pages. Which our little boy has a huge library for his age, but he can tell you about the monkey’s eating pop-a-cicles and …
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Sharing Childhood Memories
We went out to my grandparents’ the other evening. Which usually I dread and so does TJ. It’s not totally because of my crazy grandmother that we don’t enjoy it. It is boring too. I am the oldest cousin by 15 years and my youngest uncle is 9 years older than me. There is no …
Little Boy Prayers
We have always said nightly prayers with Zane since he’s been in his own bed at 6 months old. We always have done pretty much the same prayer. “Good night Lord Jesus, take good care of me tonight, bring me good dreams, take care of my mommy and bring my daddy home safe, In Jesus’ …
As I lay me down to bed…
Zane has been being proving the meaning of being two to me. Tonight he tired me out so much that I couldn’t even muster the strength to fight with him to go to bed. I sat and listened to him play at the top of the stairs as I tried to wind down from a …
Packing the Perfect Diaper Bag
When Zane was small a friend gave us a list of things to put in the diaper bag, so that whenever TJ took Zane to her house the bag was perfectly packed. I decided I should rewrite this because I am finding that I am so used to the minimal things Zane requires. I keep …
Mommy Skills: What to do when everyone is getting sick
Everyone in our house is getting sick. I think it is a test of my mommy skills. Two sick babies, one sick daddy and one sick mommy trying to take care of everyone else. It started with a runny nose from Zaney. Which I have no idea where he would have gotten something, we haven’t …