Today was beautiful, even though I didn't know it at the time ( Read more... )

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(Quite awhile ago Indy and I made an agreement. I would stop yelling and he woud stop doing some frustrating things he had been doing ( Read more... )

He isn't little anymore and sometimes that makes me so sad. There he is growing up in front of my eyes. Right before my very eyes, growing up and away ( Read more... )

First week of school for the boy and he loves it, but it makes him very tired. And tired, for him, always means easily upset. Tonight he has already cried at me three times ( Read more... )

This summer I made up a sort of program of things to do with Indy. Most of it requires just the basic stuff you have around the house. All of the ideas I got from my own general knowledge or reading teacher resource books from the library ( Read more... )

1. This morning, getting breakfast together, I hear him calling, "Mommy, mommy, mommy, come-ere." And I find him at the top of our hardwood stairs, sitting in a cardboard box, saying, "Push me!" I turned it into a lesson on the difference between boxes and pillows going down the stairs ( Read more... )

For awhile now I have been realizing that Indy just doesn't say as many funny things as he use to. And that has made me really sad, I enjoy writing up all the cute things he says. And it is yet another reminder that he is growing up, growing out of the phase of his life that I have enjoyed so so much ( Read more... )

So we've had a cat living on our porch for the past week. Surprisingly we call him "porch cat". I wasn't going to let him in, I really wasn't. He was super friendly but not fixed, and I have a 6 month old unfixed girl cat, and she has an appointment to be fixed next week. But then with all the rain and the fact that every day I would wake up, fo to ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin. It floats around in my head all day and I don't talk about it with anyone and it sits there and I watch the minutes tick away on the couch and wonder why I am so distant ( Read more... )