Everything I know I learned from a Horse

I often feel discouraged as I am trying to wrangle my kids, like maybe I have lost my touch or something. I used to be able to make 1000 pound animals obey with just a stern look or or light pressure to a shoulder. What happened? Why was working with the big beasts so much […]

Just Being- Update #1

I am so thrilled to have had such a great response to Just Be With Me, so I thought I should update you on how it’s going. So far things are going okay. I wish I could say that everyone is peachy, there have been no tantrums (by children or adults) and that I am […]

Just Be With Me

“Mama what you doing?” was not the sound I wanted to hear at 6:15 this morning when I was trying to get a jump on my batch cooking for this month. “Making muffins buddy, and why are you…” G interrupted before I could finish “Can I help?” In this moment I wanted to say NOOOOOOO!!! […]

Summer Fun List for “The Not so Crafty Mom”

I keep seeing all these great Summer Fun Listsfloating around and they are pretty awesome. Here is the problem I am having with some of them: they are for older kids, they cost a fortune, you must have an engineering degree to make it work, or they would take me all day to set up […]

New Mantel Decor

There is a Tonka car carrier filled with matchbox cars on my mantle. Why? you ask. Because on Tuesday I decided I was tired of yelling at my kids, I was tired of make empty threats, and I was tired of not enjoying them (the kids, not the threats.) After bathtime I told G that […]

Give yourself a break

Through clenched teeth I whisper “Son that is a maraca, not a hammer. Please don’t hit anyone or anything with it, you can shake it and dance only. Mama will help you find another toy if you can’t use this one correctly.” G doesn’t even look up, but he stop beating the walls with the […]

Less Mess Craft: Cotton Balls

We are leaving on Sunday for a week to go look for our new house. I am super excited about it except for the part about flying with 2 small kids, or the almost 2 hour drive from the airport to the hotel, or staying in a hotel for a week, or the packing OH […]

Not one size fits all

This morning I woke up to the sound of ran on my windows and it made me happy because we had NOTHING on our agenda. It is rare that we have no place to be. Drinking my coffee and browsing my fav blogs I can across this post and it made me smile, It made […]

Thankful for naptime

It’s only 1:15 and I have thought about running away at least a dozen times today! My morning started out not so great when my pain in the butt wonderful Husband decided to skip his workout and get up at 5:59am and jump in the shower. Now this doesn’t seem like a huge deal but […]

Weekly review

I decided I should take sometime and post weekly about the stuff that made me laugh and cringe. When I started this blog I wanted to be able to go back and read all about my life, then reality hit me and with 2 small kids I didn’t have much time to update. Now is […]