Better in Bulk - Family photographer with a large family
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This is a little longer than the typical quote I post for Sunday Citar, but I was driving in my van yesterday and stopped to listen to the words to this Taylor Swift song for the first time and found myself crying as I drove down the interstate. The Best Day (click on song title [...]
The kids’ bedtime is both my favorite and most dreaded part of the day. Getting kids out of bed in the morning and dressed and ready for school is a lot of work, but it’s manageable. The trick is to keep everybody moving until they’re moving their way out the door. Helping four school-aged kids [...]
Unprompted commentary from my 4 year old son while he was brushing his teeth for bed tonight: “Mom, I used to be in your stomach. I was like a big egg. I was a big, huge torturer in your stomach. I was a torturer. And you were fat. And I kicked you in your tummy.” [...]
5 dentist visits. Done 135 teeth cleaned (give or take a few) 4 set of x-rays 3 dinosaurs, 4 super-heros, 6 jungle animals, 2 monsters, and 1 knight staging a war on the waiting room floor 4 mouths-full of foamy flouride, spit 1 mouth, sealed shut 2 stubborn baby teeth, pulled 3 pieces of gauze, [...]
Yesterday, I was sitting with AJ, my 4 year old, clicking through blogs and reading through emails. The following picture caught his eye and he asked if we could watch the Juice Box Jungle video together. I suppose the picture of a screaming mom pulling her hair out looked a little silly to him. We [...]
When I first read through MamaKat’s prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop, my gut reaction to #4 (Describe how motherhood has changed you) was to point out all of the signs of motherhood on my physical body. The varicose veins covering my legs that appeared during pregnancy and will only disappear with surgery….the stretched-out stomach….the [...]
In honor of the new movie Motherhood, a unique movie about a real mom, Jill from Scary Mommy is looking for some other Scary Mommies out there. The most convincing Scary Mommy post is going to win a Flip video camera. Incredible, right?? Well, here’s my experience as a Scary Mommy: Motherhood has done some [...]
Unfortunately, whether AJ’s enormous vomiting episode last night was a result of too much candy eaten at the pack meeting or a case of the flu….the result is the same. We are taking it easy today. And considering he hasn’t been acting sick this morning, I can’t complain too much. Sometimes easy days are extremely [...]
Mona’s heading towards my (current) home territory today, as she visits another great group of bloggers. Stop by these fantastic women and say howdy! Kentucky: Alas 3 LadsMichigan: Buried with ChildrenIndiana: Adventures in BabywearingOhio: Chefdruck MusingsWest Virginia: My Life As It Should BeVirginia: LulavillePennsylvania: Stacy’s Random Thoughts, Feels Like Home, and My iRish TwinsMaryland: parenting [...]
One of my least favorite things about sending my kids off to school (or camp during the summer) is fixing bagged lunches for 5 kids. There is nothing fun for me about slapping 10 pieces of bread with some combination of peanut butter, honey, butter, cinnamon, mayo, cheese, and ham. One kid likes peanut butter [...]
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