Ava and I made Coconut Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies together. When I opened up the oven to stick in our mounds of sweetness, Ava ran to the drawer to retrieve a spoon. I stood up and saw this: That soon gave way to this:
Archive for February, 2008
counter-licking good
Posted in the ones about ava on February 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »
caught sticky-handed
Posted in the ones about ava, tagged children, discipline, family, mothering, parenting on February 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
So the day that I posted about how Ava shares her candy, which I realize was a while ago now, Ava and I had a little candy incident. I was going to write this addendum earlier, but then I got sick. Then Ava got sick. And then Nate got sick. Obviously, sharing runs in the [...]
global trendsetter?
Posted in the ones about fashion, tagged children, family, friends, grandparents, Paris on February 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Back in October, a sweet little girl in Norway saw a picture of the Fairy Princess Ballerina, and traded in her pink leopard costume for this: Quit an impressive knock-off. Late last week, Grandma Penny was strolling through Paris and saw this: Notice anything? Look again. That looks remarkably similar to this: Poor Grammy thought [...]
show and tell
Posted in the ones about ava, tagged children, family, grandparents, Paris on February 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Why would a three-year-old choose this to bring to show-and-tell? So she could tell her class that this is where her grandma has moved to. Well, not exactly the Eiffel Tower, but a few blocks away from it. About three weeks ago, Ava and Grammy’s weekly visits turned from this: to this: I have delayed [...]
31 flavors
Posted in the ones about ava, tagged children, family, humor on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So I’m not one of those people who likes to blog about things that happen in the bathroom. Remember, I like paper hearts and sparkles. It’s my personal philosophy that what happens in the bathroom should stay in or rather be flushed out of the bathroom. Yuck. So while I didn’t venture into the bathroom, [...]
keyboard confessional
Posted in the ones about hungryman, tagged family, love, romance, valentine's day on February 19, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I have a confession to make. I was going to make it on Saturday, but late Friday night an insidious sore throat wrapped it’s spiky fingers around my neck, and I have been curled up in my bed ever since. After extra helpings of hot tea, deep sleep, and warm baths, I finally able to [...]
ctrl + enter
Posted in the ones about the blog, tagged Christianity, faith, writing on February 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I just pushed send on an e-mail containing four devotionals for a local publication. This is the first paid creative writing job that I have had since I left work to stay at home with my new babe nearly four years ago. Even though it is a small project in the scope of writing for [...]
happy valentines day!
Posted in the ones about merriment on February 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »
shiny happy people
Posted in the ones about ava, tagged children, family, friends, race on February 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A couple of months ago, Ava was telling me about her friend at church. Generally these conversations consist of what Ava and her friend did together and what type of shoes this particular friend was wearing. This time her description ended with “and she’s black.” “She has black shoes?” “No. She’s black.” This was the [...]
cheerful giver
Posted in the ones about ava, tagged candy, children, family, life, mothering, sharing on February 12, 2008 | 14 Comments »
It would be fair to say that my child is slightly sweets deprived. She thinks Lucky Charms is a finger food reserved only for her birthday party and is delighted when she is allotted a swirl of maple syrup on her old fashion oatmeal. In the world of children, the commodity is often candy. And [...]
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