Posted by Paula.
Mar
8
Posted by Paula.
If you can’t tell, I’m trying to personalize my blog a bit more. Husband helped me with some coding for my header, but we’re not quite there (obviously). Hopefully you can still find your way around and nothing else is too wonky. Hang with me, please, I plan to have it fixed up all purty for you soon!
Mar
8
Posted by Paula.
Last week I found myself humbled in big ways.
And not the “good” humbled, like “I’m so humbled that you chose me for this prestigious writing award!” or “I’m so humbled that you model your parenting after my example!” (Obviously, I’m speaking in hyperboles here.)
No, the kind of humbled that makes you think “I can’t believe this is happening to me . . .” or “Wow, I must be a serious loser!”
I wasn’t just humbled in one area of my life, …
Mar
4
Posted by Paula.
Since I’ve now been blogging for nearly two years (Seriously, has it been that long?!), I thought I’d bring back some of the more popular posts every now and again in case you missed them the first time around. So here’s the first installment, a symptomatic guide to determine if you, too, have been overtaken by boys.
“Sorry to tell you this, ma’am, but you’ve got a raging case of boys!”
(click above to read the post)
Mar
3
Posted by Paula.
There are times when my words are on my side, offering themselves to me at just the right moment in a proud, sacrificial gesture.
Then there are times when my words run away, turning around only to stick out their tongues.
A few of the more rebellious ones even give me the finger.
And across the haze I see Anxiety, my sworn enemy, looking all smug as the words line up, one by one, behind her. A few of the gentler words peek …
Mar
1
Posted by Paula.
We rarely go to movies as a family, so you can imagine how unusual it was for us to see not one but TWO movies this past weekend.
First up: Percy Jackson and the Olympians—The Lightning Thief. Boy #1 and I read all of the Percy Jackson books, so we were pumped to see the first of what I’m assuming will be several movies.
We decided to make it a family night out, complete with a sit-down dinner.
Well, if you count Burger …
Feb
26
Posted by Paula.
It’s funny. My boys don’t think twice about hurting one another. They call names. They hit. They say things that (I hope!) they don’t mean. And they always get over it.
But hurt Squidward Tentacles? And you’ve gone too far.
According to Boy #3, that is.
We were in this car this morning listening to the radio and discussing nothing SpongeBob-ish, when out of the blue Boy #3 piped up from the backseat: “I feel sorry for Squidward.”
Trying to figure out how the …
Feb
24
Posted by Paula.
I get this a lot: “Oh, you have three boys. So you’re the princess of the house!”
(Obviously these are people who do not know me or my offspring.)
I’m sure that some moms of boys are treated like royalty. I’m sure they’re pampered and put on a pedestal. And maybe someday my boys will see me for the queen that I am. But now? Definitely not.
Take this morning, for example. You’d think today of all days—my birthday, for crying out loud, …
Feb
23
Posted by Paula.
For those of you who live nearby and thought that we dodged that snowstorm (Up to 8 inches! Strong winds! Blowing and drifting!) on Sunday through either luck, meteorological error, or maybe even the pity of Mother Nature herself—I’ve got news for you.
You have my husband to thank.
Because we now have one of these in our garage.
After 15 winters together, shoveling, getting stuck in the driveway, and nursing sore shoulders, Husband decided that enough was enough. This was after he …
