Category: And Working Mother

As a wife and working mother of three boys, I blog for the sake of my family because if I don’t make notes here about where they can all find their socks, they’ll be lost without me when I’m gone.

Found Money

I’m starting to think that I need a new blog, one that just focuses on my six year old. He’s great blog material. He’s my little blogger boy. He’s a blog-o-rama. I often tell him he should have his own…

My Little Conniver

Yes, we have rules at our house. Maybe not super-strict, uncomfortable rules, but they’re not too shabby where kids are concerned. No computers or TV in the bedrooms. Limited computer time. Limited TV time (when we remember to enforce it).…

Piece of Apple Pie

When I say goodnight to my children, it’s usually, “Night, night pumpkin pie.” I’m not sure why. Maybe I got that from my folks. Maybe because I love pumpkin pie. Maybe because my kids are so cute and sweet I…

Bye Bye Kindergarten

Last week my youngest, five-year-old-about-to-be-six Ryan, graduated from Kindergarten.  That’s it.  I will never be a mom of a Kindergartner again.  (Pause…)  Yay!  He will tell you that he is now a “Firstie”, as in a first-grader.  I’d never heard…

In The Old Country…

My five year old son is swimming in the pool as I sit here at the patio table working on my laptop. It’s 9pm on a Saturday night on the outskirts of Phoenix and still 90 degrees outside. My five…