I love it when I see rational thought on TV. I agree with everything said on this subject! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
I am, sadly, out of the loop. Or at least I was out of the loop until I downloaded this free iPad app from Bing. I originally read about this app on Cool Mom Tech. I fell in love with this app when I saw what it could do for me on the video below. You see, I have had several awkward moments of ignorance. The most recent left my friends totally dumbfounded at my lack of awareness for…
When we adopted Grant he was already 9 nine years old. We hadn’t had him for 9 days when I realized I had adopted the only Tasmanian Devil from Siberia. Grant never went to school, he lived in a village in Siberia and pretty much had always done what he wanted, when he wanted. This meant that he was used to bouncing around like a ping pong ball at every hour of the day AND night. The overactive Grant hit…
The Merrill family is not the best at sitting still. Not all of us are wiggle worms but we do have our fair share. When the children were younger, learning to sit still was a necessity for us for several reasons. We have a big family and if all five of the children were wiggling it really caused a commotion. We also went to church, a lot of extended family dinners, and banquets and if my children weren’t behaving, no…
Today.com did a survey of 26,000 moms asking their deepest darkest secrets (about parenting). The confessions were all over the board from giving their child medication so they can have peace and quiet to being lonely. Being a mom can be overwhelming, lonely, and full of fearful anxiety. Knowing that all moms have feelings like these can bring perspective. Many of these secrets come from guilty feelings that we are not doing all we should for our children. There is great…
Every August I used to get a little sick to my stomach every time I had to swipe that credit card. It literally felt hot sometimes. My credit card was on fire and it wasn’t even Christmas, it was back to school spending. And it seemed to grow in dollars congruent to the inches my children grew every year. A couple of factors came in to play – the number of children I had in school and my girls growing…