Lessons in Motherhood

I was in meetings most of this morning, and when I got to my desk, I had the funniest voicemail from my husband. “Hi, honey. Ummm…It was picture day today at Sophia’s school. Did you tell me that and I forgot or did you just forget about that? I mean she [...]

Tonight Sophia lost her binky. Not really. Luke took her binky because she didn’t listen. This happened at about 8:30pm. It’s now 10:00pm. Each of us – Luke, my mother, and myself – has been up there to comfort her (although not to give her the binky). At about [...]

Today was Sophia’s first day of big girl swim class, as in the swim class that she does by herself without Mommy. We were very excited for her, and I was excited to not have to get into the water. I promise you that Fifi was all geared up to go to class [...]

This is Sophia’s idea of cleaning. While I was helping Hailey with her homework, which continues to be a painful experience, Sophia decided to clean the whole downstairs. Basically, “cleaning” entailed taking everything off of the floor or any surface of the house and bringing it out to the deck. Quite a [...]

My children are constantly losing things. I think that’s just the curse of having children. Because here’s a secret about children – they are completely illogical and therefore, they put things everywhere. In fact, the more they love something, the more likely they are to hide it somewhere. Kind of like [...]

It’s been three sessions now, and Hailey is still loving swim class. She has an amazing coach who really focuses on teaching her the fundamentals of each stroke, while miraculously making the class fun. Unfortunately, Sophia has only been able to watch Hailey swim because kids have to be three to take classes [...]

Someone has decided that she doesn’t need a nap anymore. That was Saturday when she made that decision. I nearly lost my mind that afternoon…mainly because I wanted to take a nap too. Let’s just say that one of us was a wee bit cranky, and it wasn’t Sophia.
Then, Saturday [...]

I suppose that you are thinking that this post is going to be about me taking on the challenges of parenting head on. It’s not. Nope. It’s about something much more disgusting and nefarious than that. In fact, you either going to find this post completely revolting, simply adorable or both.
This [...]

When a dance party will break out at the frozen yogurt shop

Yogurt Dance Party from luke hamilton on Vimeo.

Before you call Child Protective Services, let me remind you that I did not put her in the dryer. I heard her yelling in there, and then I ran in to video it. Luke, being the more reasonable parent at the time thought that I was being terrible for encouraging such behavior. [...]