parenting – Page 2 – Through the Lens of Motherhood

Power Kid? Raising Attila the Hun.

Today marks the last day of the Kaper being three years old; it (to me) is significant. Starting tomorrow I move from having any ‘toddlers’ and having two full blown ‘kids’. The summer was hard for Kaleb, struggling to find his place in a family focused on his ailing brother he sought attention through temperContinue reading “Power Kid? Raising Attila the Hun.”

going the distance

It’s been a while, as I thought it would be since my last post. We ended up getting the week of holidays at the cottage that we had hoped and prayed for. It was great weather, warm and sunny (for the most part) and other than a little rough patch at the start of theContinue reading “going the distance”

Hero for a minute

For those of you who read my post the other day about the ‘joys’ of motherhood I have an update… today I got called the ‘best car finder EVER’ by my sweet child whose been mad all week about the missing blue and green car (which I finally discovered was ‘Carla’ from Cars2). After learningContinue reading “Hero for a minute”

Lessons for the CIA

It’s understandable really that motherhood is both a wonderful gift and at the same time, earth shattering in it’s blows to sleep, clean homes, personal hygiene, cool tempers, patient attitudes, and general self esteem. We start out with a tiny little embryo that grows into a watermelon, stretching skin into impossible places that never properlyContinue reading “Lessons for the CIA”

What he teaches mee

I remember being pregnant with Kaleb, the feeling of him growing inside me and the immediate love that happened when I met him for the first time in the OR, when they held him close to me for the first time so that I could see him; so unlike Joshua’s delivery and so beautifully normal.Continue reading “What he teaches mee”

sweet & sour

This morning… before I had consumed my first coffee my youngest child who is in the throws of being two decided to have a monumental melt down. This is not a new occurrence in our home these days, in fact for the last few weeks he has stepped it up a notch and the decibelContinue reading “sweet & sour”

NEED HELP!

Yes, this is a picture of a clean house…however, the boys had been out with Daddy ALL morning for it to get that way!(just saying) Ever tried to wash the floor with a 3 year old running around? I had thought it would be a good idea, while Kaleb was napping to wash the floorsContinue reading “NEED HELP!”

12:00 am didn’t used to be late…

I still look back fondly on the nights that I stayed up simply because I chose to stay up, when midnight was still early and a good sleep in meant getting up at noon. I don’t think I properly revelled in those days and nights, in fact I daresay I took them for granted. TheseContinue reading “12:00 am didn’t used to be late…”