Posts under ‘Joy of parenting’

Boy Blue has spent the last two nights trying to wiggle out of his fever.  Mama has been giving him his meds and lots of kisses. 
Mama would like to give him a magical kiss that will put him to sleep.  Wiggle free sleep.  The fact is that sleep is not so easy with a wiggle monster [...]

We picked her up today in Louisville.  Her father met us half way.  She hasn’t stopped talking since she got in the car. 
We celebrated her birthday which was really on the 11th of this month and we plan on having a wonderful Thanksgiving together.
The two younger girls have been chasing Angel around the house for [...]

Papa was watching the kids. 
Translation-
Papa was watching the television while Sweet Bear found scissors and cut Petite Clown’s hair.  Hearing loud enough giggles to break him from his t.v. stuppor, Papa went to investigate. 
He found that Petite Clown had been transformed into a “girl’s just want to have fun” version of Cindi Lauper. 
Sweet Bear has [...]

Sweet Bear bit Petite Clown’s hand.  Petite Clown started with a low whine that creeped up into a full blown scream-cry as is the case with all children that are hurt.  
I laid in the bed startled from my sleep as the pitch of Petite Clown’s whine grew louder.  I stayed there with my eyes closed to see what would happen.  [...]

I worked at the mall for six hours today until five.  Then, we rushed home to eat and get the kids ready for trick or treating which began at six.  I had to dress them and put make-up on their faces.  I sprayed Petite Clown’s hair straight up.  She looked adorable as a little red [...]

We bought Sweet Bear a birthday cake for her birthday.  It is chocolate icing on yellow cake.  She picked it because it had ballons painted on top of the cake on each side.  In the middle we had “Happy Birthday Sweet Bear” written.  She was very excited to get to pick out her own birthday cake. 
It is [...]

Vilay was finishing up painting my mother’s laundry room.  Sweet Bear and Petite Clown were wrestling and giggling as they watched their father from the doorway of the kitchen which leads into the laundry room.  Vilay and I were talking about how the painting was going.  Actually, I was asking him if he had managed [...]

We visited Yellow Springs today. Yellow Springs is one of our favorite cities around here to hang out. While walking around the town we encountered many cats in the streets and in the shops. After Sweet Bear had carried a very gentle black cat all around a used bookshop for at least [...]

The day after arriving back in America after over 2 years, Sweet Bear started “baby talking” while speaking French. It got worse and worse as the week went on. She even started talking to her father in English. He would just say what she had said again but in French. He [...]

I have found a template that I think is cleaner and easier to read.  Please, let me know if anyone has any problems with it.  I have checked it under Firefox and IE.
The beautiful picture of the bridge is not mine.  Therefore, I will be searching for a new header over the next few weeks [...]