Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
I spent the morning piling the kids into the car, buckling them into their car seats, then unbuckling them and unloading them. Our kids’ car seats don’t really fit in our car. I’ve tried to fix that by replacing their seats and switching Degen to a booster now that he’s old enough (birthdays!), but although [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2009
I’ve been making an effort to exercise more. It’s been a kinda half-hearted effort, and thus difficult to make myself get going. Yesterday I did it and enjoyed it so thoroughly it’s worth writing about. I was typing away at a project on the computer after getting Maggie and Heidi down for naps. I’d been [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 20th, 2009
Degen and Maggie are dressed and fed, Heidi is dressed and fed and napping, Colin is at an Elder’s Quorum service project (dressed, hopefully fed, and surely not napping). The kids are baking me a “cake” in their pretend kitchen while I’m being a nerd in my pjs and watching an old John Bytheway Education [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2009
We just caught Heidi scooting across the floor, almost crawling, up on both knees and falling forward with her face! I pulled out the video camera and sorta got it on film, though she wasn’t really interested in a repeat performance. Fun to get some memories on tape, especially with Maggie in the background for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2009
I’ve been actively encouraging my kids to practice trying new things, even when the new things are hard to do or green-eggs-and-ham unattractive. I think trying new things is an important skill to learn, so I’m teaching it to my kids despite the inevitable hassle it creates for yours truly. Interestingly, the whole world seems [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009
We went to the ophthalmologist today to check and make sure Maggie’s glasses were the right prescription, that we got good glasses, and that they were doing their job. All of the above were good to go. Yay! I was pleased and relieved to find out we won’t have to do patching or surgery to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
I’ve got a garden this year. Actually, I share a garden with my father-in-law, but that seems to be a better way than doing it myself anyway since the garden gets water more often. Gardens are a lot more fun now than when I was little and tired of hoeing weeds out of Grandpa Bushman’s [...]
Posted in Kids on Jul 11th, 2008
I don’t actually know if “playgroup” is supposed to be one word or two. So, I’ll just switch off as the mood strikes me. It’ll keep things exciting. Anyone know the official word on the correct way to write it? Yesterday afternoonwe went to a play group organized by some ladies in my new ward. [...]
Posted in Kids on Jul 10th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Degen and his Grandpa have made a regular thing of having golf lessons outside in the yard. Naturally, Maggie wants to do whatever Degen does and begged me one day to go outside with them and play golf (pronounced more like “gofe”). I thought it might be fun for her, so I [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Jul 7th, 2008
Colin did our FHE lesson tonight–he put up a slide show of pictures of our family on the TV for us to watch. Maggie excitedly screamed out the names of everyone she recognized in the pictures, including herself. There were some pictures of the Savior mixed in, and every time Maggie sees a picture of [...]