Posted on Friday, 22nd January 2010 by Catherine

My sweet boy:
You have rosy bright red cheeks, you have not eaten all day, you have a high fever and just want to sleep but you can’t because your cough is driving you crazy.  You take a bath at noon hoping that might help your aches and pains.  You try to sleep but can’t get [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 by Catherine

There was stuff everywhere. After having 11 people in our house for a week I had work to do. I’d also been sick with the stomach flu, and the everyday picking up of our house had been neglected.
It was a “get stuff done” type of day.
Then my two-year-old came up and said, “Read to me mommy.” There [...]

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Posted on Friday, 8th January 2010 by Catherine

Dear beloved children of mine:
I have been feeling like a crazy mom for several months now.  I wonder what is making me this way?  Is it age? Hormones? Stress? One may never know.  All I do know is that if I have to continue to ask 5+ times for you to do things I will [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 30th December 2009 by Catherine

Yesterday I was THAT mom.  I am not sorry about it either.  I can own that I have a bit of  crazy in me when it comes to certain things. One of which is SLEEP.  I pride myself in all three of my kids being excellent sleepers.  The ONLY time any of them are up [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by Catherine

I have on my reminiscing shoes today as I participate in the blog carnival over at Blog Nosh that benefits Tide Loads of Hope for the Holidays.  The question was “how do the holidays fill you with loads of hope?”  For me it is not only during the holidays that I am filled with [...]

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