“Let’s color for a minute” Rory asks sweetly. It is early morning and Ryder has already declared the day “the best ever!”. No doubt the Krispy Kreme doughnuts left over from my birthday influenced that declaration. I pause to color a three by three sheet of paper. Satisfied, Rory skips off with her crayons. I…
Cornfields are swishing by. The sky is a beautiful blue puffed with bright clouds. Train tracks race beside our car as the kids are engrossed in activities within the car. It is a calm scene that lasts all of three minutes before someone has dropped a cup, cracker toughs need refilling, a baby has pooped.
The wind was picking up, the rain was coming down in sheets. Gray and black clouds were above us settled in for the evening. There was no chance I was going to make it to the grocery store, enter improvisation cooking: Stormy Tom Sauce – Printable Version (Encore presentation performed by Rory and Ryder Mack.…
I took the phone call. It was the fifth of the morning. Six spreadsheets were open. 43 e-mails returned. I was making strides with the work day and it was only 11am. I tried a new strategy when it was time to feed Cody again – turn off my phone, walk away from the computer,…
Sometimes life requires a change of scenery. One doesn’t have to travel far (’cause Lord knows traveling too far can get ugly with kids and takes a certain mental preparedness…or moment of insanity). My favorite and most energized mother in law, a.k.a. “Grandma”, had the fun idea of heading over the bridges and through the…