Lessons in Motherhood

My Grandmother always bought me Polly Flinders dresses for Christmas. Do you know what those are? They are these crazy, ultra-girly dresses with this elaborate stitching at the top. I was never a girly girl, so I always sort of hated them. No, I really hated them. Remember when the [...]

We have lots of birthdays in October. In fact, Luke and Hailey have been discussing what type of cake they will be making for my birthday. Do I feel another cake controversy coming on? Could very well be. Yet, I think that they should use Hailey’s recipe this year. Check [...]

Because they were still recovering from the stomach flu, Luke and Hailey stayed home from school/work yesterday. This is what greeted me when Sophia and I walked in the door:
Hailey: “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. Daddy says that Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader are sisters.”
Awesome!

Tonight Hailey helped me clean the seeds out of a bunch of peppers that we picked in the garden (yes, the rain had some positives). As she was cleaning out the seeds, I explained to her all about how if we put the seeds in the ground, they would grow more pepper plants. [...]

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I spoke with Hailey’s teacher the other day, and she happened to drop this little line… “Hailey is adjusting very well to the new classroom. In fact, she often recites the rules of the classroom back to the other children.”
What?!?!? Is that or is that not the [...]

Guess what Hailey wants to be for Halloween?
No really, take a guess.
Got it in your head? Are you sure?
Did you guess a princess??? Don’t lie. You know you did.
WRONG WRONG WRONG
Spiderman. She wants to be Spiderman. No way you guessed that. Liars.

Hailey and Daddy are sitting on the couch watching Star Wars (the first Star Wars not the fake first that came after the real first…if you know what I mean). Luke is trying to explain to me that he saw Star Wars in the theater at Hailey’s exact age almost to the day. [...]

Hailey and Sophia’s school was having a Read-a-Thon today. They had volunteers come in to read to the classrooms. Since I get volunteer hours off at work, I decided to go in to read some stories. I read to Hailey’s class first, and as I was leaving, I heard her say to [...]

Hailey HATES having her hair combed. Have you seen some of the pictures of her hair in the morning? It’s the “finger meet light socket” look so you can imagine why she hates me dousing it in conditioning spray and tearing a comb through it.

Well, one day I just couldn’t take [...]

Lordy, Lordy look who’s well, look who’s getting bigger! The girls are all over the place these days. Aside from having her constant make-believe conversations, Hailey is also learning to write her name and to read. Here’s a picture of her writing. She’s great with H, A, L, and I. [...]