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7 Ways To Compliment a Child

This is my weekly post on compliments at Forever Parenting. Have a great day everyone! I’ve been working on improving my relationship with the boys, especially the older ones. February is a difficult month with the cloudy cold days…just blah in general. It’s easy for...

Things That Made Me Smile Today

All the boys playing together nicely: today’s big event was dumping a huge barrel of plastic balls down the stairs and laughing at the thunderous noise. Naomi’s post on a certain reality of life as a pregnant mom (sorry, post no longer is published). The...

Epiphany

Ever have one of those moments? You know, the one when you smack yourself on the forehead (figuratively speaking) and say “duh!” to yourself? Kind of like the V-8 commercial. Well, I had one this past Tuesday. True confession here: I’m not a morning...

BLIZZARD…2008!!!

Yeah okay maybe not so much a blizzard. Just thought I’d beat the meteorologists to it, since we haven’t had that particular headline locally yet. But we did get a bit of snow here yesterday. It was deep enough that Hubby had to stay home from work and...

My Sweet Boys

Here is my weekly post about sweet boys at Forever Parenting] Ugh. I had such an awful headache today. I noticed it when I woke up, then it got worse as the day went on. During the history lesson the older boys and I wound up in a massive discussion about attitudes...

Sentinel: City of Destiny – We Have a Winner!

Well, the deadline has passed for the contest so we had the official drawing this morning. Note to self: rethink setting deadlines at midnight because the rest of the family has gone to sleep by then and would have missed out on the fun. This morning, I wrote all the...