May
16
Three and a half years ago I faced that dreaded day after 8+ weeks at home with the Boy when I had to pack him up, drive him to daycare and leave him with “strangers” while I went back to work. I knew it was going to be hard but I had no idea just how …
May
14
Gaven Michael Weyers was happily welcomed into this world on May 18, 2011 by his Mommy Brenda and Daddy Mike. Gaven, who is the Weyers second child, also has a beautiful, high spirited two year old big sister named Payton who live together in Ontario, Canada. Mike is a crane mechanic who works tirelessly to …
May
07
Every morning when I leave daycare, I stand on the sidewalk outside his room and the Boy and I make funny faces at each other; some days there even are five to six little googly faces staring and laughing back at me but not today. The weekend was so wonderful. Both days I got up …
May
03
When I picked up the boy yesterday I noticed a yellow highlighted paragraph on his daily note. Yes, I said paragraph; it was an incident report. Not a “he got a boo-boo” incident report, those are on a separate piece of paper; this one indicated a bad choice was made. Gulp. Here is the condensed …
May
01
There are times when it’s 3am and I once again hear the sobbing call “I want my Mommy” because of what I can only assume is the hundredth nightmare he’s had during the night that I wish I could just get some sleep already. But then I stumble down the hall in the dark, and …
Apr
30
I was having a conversation with my friend Marsh-a the other night that ten years ago I would have never imagined we’d be having. You see, Marsh-a and I have been friends forever; and if our past “adventures” would dictate our futures, clean living would not have been a part of it. And by “clean …
Apr
25
I found a really easy recipe for homemade chicken nuggets that are not only good for your family but really delicious. I made them last night and to be honest, I was nervous because as you know, those fast food nuggets are little golden nuggets of crack to kids; plus I served them with homemade …
Apr
23
If you arrived here via my Facebook page, you know I asked you what these were. You guessed gummy candies right? Well, if you did you are wrong. Pills vs Candy – can you tell the difference? If you thought the picture of gummy vitamins above was candy, so would your child. I was going …
Apr
20
A few days ago while putting the Boy to bed I noticed he seemed a bit more cuddly than usual; I asked him if he was O.K., not expecting anything to be wrong; he’s three, what could possibly be wrong? He looked at me and said “Momma, am I stupid?”. I was dumfounded. I looked …
Apr
18
Today I am giving Mrs. C. the floor. She is all about spring cleaning and would like to share some of her helpful cleaning tips! I do realize that I announced my breakup with Pinterest on Monday and this entry could be misconstrued as something you would see there, however I would like to state …