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Guest post: Motherhood Lessons
By Danyelle Ferguson Motherhood is a peculiar journey. We never know what our children will be like, what their future holds, nor how it will change our path in life. I certainly never expected to have...
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Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. (psychological warfare of attrition)
It happens almost every day and almost every week. About the 18,000th sentence beginning with or consisting entirely of “Mom?”, something inside just snaps. I know I’m not the only one being smothered...
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Manly man
I’m the oldest of four daughters. While we were growing up, my dad would often (i.e. at least weekly) encourage us to eat some portion of our dinner with the promise, “It’ll put hair on your chest!” As...
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Rachel has adopted
Hayden is very interested about when Rebecca and Rachel will have babies. I have tried to convince him it will not be for a long time (I’m hoping around 20 years here), but he still brings it up from...
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Law & Order: Puke-ageddon
In the month of October, my children threw up 17 times in 17 days. This is one of their stories. DUNK-DUNK! Once upon a time, I decided to take my kids out on a fun trip all by myself. Usually, I try...
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5 ways parenthood makes you really, really old
I swear, parenting seems to age me faster than anything else—in more ways than one! Pregnancy, etc. Aside from the fact that pregnancy brings all kinds of aches and pains that you’re not supposed to...
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Singing!
Rachel has really taken to Nursery at church. Although she’s still just learning to talk, suddenly she has a whole new kind of vocabulary: songs. Although she only knows one word of each song (okay,...
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Evolution works! (Or: Five reasons why babies are cute)
A flashback from three years ago when Rebecca was a baby. I’m not really going to get into a theory of evolution debate here—really, the more appropriate headline would be “Natural selection works.” I...
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Can you say “Precocious”?
I had someone say that to me about one of my kids this last week, but I think it might apply to all of them. Yes, even the one with a twenty-word vocabulary. This week, Hayden told Ryan (AKA Daddy)...
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Hayden’s a ham
Hayden should start working on his stand up routine. This is from the last week: “I’m a fan of Phineas and Ferb. I have been since I was born.” Discussing weather appropriate attire: . . . “Short...
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