The Train Verse

There's an important verse in the Bible that every parent should know. I've been surprised lately how many “Christian” mothers I've bumped into who've never heard of it.

Maybe the churches around here in Michigan aren't sermonizing on this one, or not lately. Maybe these mothers went back out to the lobby to get another Starbucks ( Read more... )

The Talking Twin Babies, Translated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjWFGIQr3s&sns=fb

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(Tagging James Vigeant, Ashley Septer, Peter Vigeant)
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See, Ashley? I TOLD you when you have two kids that they get up earlier than you do, and have secret planning meetings to turn your day into a maelstrom of little emergencies.
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Scene------- Pre-dawn, a little, ( Read more... )

The SouthEnder's Childhood Dilemma - A legal way to torture small children?

Do you remember this dilemma, as a little kid, growing up on the beach in Massachusetts?  My mother would send us to the shoreline to rinse off our feet before we got into the car with all that sand.   Uh................

Are you getting this?  Rinse, Put foot back down (on ( Read more... )

Dear Ashley and James,

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d4c7d790049846602d91d269b&id=0b288a5b7b&e=536997c824

Dr. William Sears is/was one of the advising physicians for the La Leche League.  He is a pediatrician who had 8 of his own children.  He has written several books that are still in the LLL libraries.  The Fussy Baby is one favorite.  I  ( Read more... )

Well, my parenting seems to be taking hold, with one son anyway - Petey, the older one, almost 25 now.   Situation:  He's attending a wedding up here tomorrow.   He's flying up from Missouri, and I get to taxi him from the airport, to meet his brother and the new baby, then rush him halfway across the state to a Rehearsal Dinner, and then I get to ( Read more... )

New Stage of Life

Well, I was just about to master the "Empty Nest" stage, when I've been thrust rather abruptly into the next stage of life.   And I'm afraid I'm really going to stink at this !   Welcome to the Era of Diplomacy.   I didn't even get to experiment with being a Mother In Law, which is hard enough, and even harder if you have sons, I ( Read more... )

High Praise for High Standards

I got a great validation today during Petey Time.

(Petey Time: My favorite time of day, occuring 2-3 days a week, from 6:11 PM - EST for almost an hour.   This is when my older son - guess his name - calls me from Missouri during his boring drive home from work.)

He said that I had really high standards for my sons, ( Read more... )

Success - So Why Am I Still Terrified?

My kids, now ages 24 and 22, have recently (the last year or so) been flooding me first with covert affirmations and then outright compliments on the job I did as a mother, and as their Mother.

And now I'm at a new threshold in life.  I'm going to become a Grandmother in September.   (Bring on the arthritis ( Read more... )

 Mother's Day Moment - a lifetime gift, not on Mother's Day

Mother's Day, at its best, is not about getting that storebought card on time, or that boring dozen roses, sale-priced for the holiday and ordered online with a mouse-click.  These are too often DUTIES, plain and simple.   Mother's Day is about Moments, memorable moments to show your dear ( Read more... )

Let You Have It -

In one of my email subscriptions today, I came across the following line, “Moms PRAY , EXHORT , watch out for us, and when needed they can really LET YOU HAVE IT.”

Now there's another funny saying for you, eh? “LET you have it?”

Child:  Really?  You'll LET me?  Why THANKS !   I know you think I've “been asking for it”, but I didn't ( Read more... )