Harrowing/Heartwarming Parent Moment of the Week

Well… one of my boys peed into the tub in defiance of our normal urination procedures, and one of them grabbed

Just like my mother before me, when I give my children dry oatmeal to eat I call it “people oats”.

Sweet Boy#3–Stumbles all sleepy-eyed out of bed in the morning and asks where his brothers are. I tell him that

Sweet Boy#2 and Sweet Boy#3–Pretend to be red salmon wriggling up a stream, but who is the stream in their

Sweet Boy#3–Rides his bike without training wheels for the first time! All three boys practice their survival skills by digging

Sweet Boy#3–Wears his new backpack for a full 8 hours. I get to take my youngest boy out for his

Warning!!! As I was at a writer’s conference on my blogging day last week, today we will cover a full

Sweet Boy#1–Pranks me by sneaking The Hunky Hubbies 25lb dumbbells into my office and putting them on my chair. I

Sweet Boy#1 has a marvelous solution to our new sugar ant invasion. Have the cousins visit so that his only

Sweet Boy#1 and Sweet Boy#2 spent a fair amount of time in tears over who was going to wear the