A Musical Morning.

This morning, after a full week of feeling sick and sleeping in, I got up with the kids. Except, I wasn't quite ready to get up, nor was I feeling my best, so I decided that while we were "up" we could snuggle on the couch watching music videos for a good hour before starting our ...

“…’cause it will not last forever.”

Tonight, my daughter and I did our normal bedtime routine. I told her two stories (one about today's camp show, and one about a big dolls from Frozen); We sang through our repertoire of songs, but this time she insisted upon trading off with each word, sometimes each syllable, making "Yan"-"Kee"-"Doo"-Dle" and the rest of our lineup feel extremely long. (By ...

Time may change me…

So, rock 'n' rollers, do you hear it? ...the sound of us making some ch-ch-changes, yet again. And while I'm so happy about all of the new and exciting opportunities being afforded to us, they also make me nervous. (The audible "it" I mentioned above could also be a reference to the sound of my jaw clenching at night. ...

“Oh, look out you rock ‘n rollers”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE]   There were a lot of changes-- a lot of new-- in the land of mom this week. Having a lot to be thankful for also comes with some major adjustments. "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." I didn't write that. Ralph Waldo Emerson did. And, he's right. Obviously. He's Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...