Lessons in Motherhood

We took the girls to the park on Monday to burn off a little steam. There were a few of Hailey’s friend boys playing soccer out on the field about 25 feet away. Luke asked her to go say hello to them and walked over with Sophia. When I came up to [...]

Just so you don’t think I’ve completely fallen off the face of the Earth, I’ll let you in on a secret…I’ve been on vacation!!!! Wonderful, glorious, relaxing vacation on St. George Island.
There are so many amazing pics from this trip that it was hard to decide which to post. So, I [...]

The happy ending to my last little rant is…

I slept until 9:45 while Luke and Hailey watched a movie downstairs
Sophia slept until 1:00pm. You heard me…1:00pm
Her fever is gone
Both girls had lots of fun at a birthday party in the ‘burbs this afternoon
There was pizza at the party so I didn’t have to cook [...]

I am picturing a future wherein I cannot get a word in edgewise…

Ok. I feel like I’m breaking a mirror by writing this blog. It’s entirely possible that in the future, I will have to endure seven years of bad luck, and by bad luck I mean a rebellious teenager with a messy room and a “I’m not you!” t-shirt. Yet, I just can’t [...]

Sophia knows maybe ten words. Among those are Mama and Whoa. So, you can imagine how often I hear “Whoa, Mama” from the backseat. It’s by far her favorite saying, and she has plenty of opportunities to say it while I say some other words at the Atlanta traffic.

This is a long blog to get to a simple point – As of today, the new tally in number of ER visits due to injury or accident:
Sophia 1 – Hailey 0
Now, before you panic and skip to the end of the blog to see if she’s alive, I will tell you that Sophia is [...]

Lots of funny things happen in the Hamilton kitchen. There was the cake debacle, the salty chicken, and many others. However, today the funniest physical comedy routine that I have ever seen happened right in our own kitchen. It started innocently enough with Sophia wanting to drink out of a big girl [...]

My spring cleaning has been a bit delayed this year. What is it? Mid Summer? It’s fine to start spring cleaning now, right?
Anyway, I decided to go through all of the girls’ toys to get rid of the baby toys. That’s always a scary thing because you feel like a burglar in your [...]