of Sarah Palin (this is for my mother).
My kids like to fall asleep next to my chair at night sometimes while i’m working on stuff.
one on either side . . .
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
my impersonation
Posted in Family, mommyness on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
friend Danya
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine, mommyness on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friend Danya is three, just between Skyla and Vika. He is their only like-age playmate at church, and his parents are Vitaliy and Natasha Fomin, who are the other young pastor-and-wife couple at our church. They *HeartHeartHeart* playing together!!!
carrots!
Posted in Family on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My kids LUV carrots. So when they are around when I’m grating, i have to grate like 5 extra carrots because they love eating grated carrots. And I think, hey, it’s healthy! Eat away!
I am only passively guilty for the backwards, inside out shirt (i.e., she put it on; i didn’t fix it).
Yes, my darling, [...]
i could give birth every day; it’s the next 18 years that’s the challenge!
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the book i’m presenting in our weekly mommy group: How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell.
The thesis of this book is that parents do truly love their kids, but parents need to learn how to express this love in a way that KIDS can feel and understand it.
Of course, my child [...]
Friday
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I feel a little guilty, like I’ve been running around all week and not focusing as much as I could on the girls. I’ve spent some time with them, but not really being with them fully–always thinking about doing the next thing, etc.
So, Friday will be focus-on-girls day and slowly clean the house so it’s [...]
food stuff
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vitaliy is doing most of the cooking now, and I am his happy assistant.
we have a lot of peppers someone gave us, so we decided to use them with rice in the crock pot. I found a treasure in a pepper!
we now have a pet catterpillar!!!
Vitaliy is a serious cook, especially when he has to [...]
my 4-year-old
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TG, my wunnerful, attachment-parenting friend, sent me a box of books at my plea for parenting help, and in that box is a simple series of thin books, each one about a year of child development. When Skyla turned four, I started searching for this, and I found it last night in my bookshelf:
These books allay [...]
singing my hero
Posted in Family, my beloved on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(that’s a play on the “unsung hero”)
A few days ago, my man told me he had decided to start 2 new hobbies. I immediately start calculating how much this is going to cost (after fishing, boating, rock climbing . . .)
I held my tongue. But my brain was steaming on . . . .
2 new [...]
cutie pies
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
on the road again . . . cuteness
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine, Ministry, mommyness on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
been driving a lot these days, we have a medical team here from the States and Fred Bennett, TITUS’ Ukraine director, is teaching a discipleship class for some of our youth each night this week.
Skyla or Vika come with me to pick him up and take him back. We made popcorn today and Skyla took [...]
