nurturing hope, creativity, family
Growing up can be awfully tough sometimes. April was a very rugged month for this handsome son of mine.
I just wanted to state, for the record, that I love this guy so much! He’s teaching us a lot about how to be parents and is a pretty awesome person. I hope May is a better month!
We were trying to go somewhere. My two year-old was getting ready to go when she suddenly said, where’s my passa? (Yes, we need to take it away, but sometimes it’s so great to be able to calm ONE of them down easily! This is one of my goals for the summer.)
I picked up the baby who was crawling around the room and held her, facing away from me while we scoured the room in search of the passa. We couldn’t find it, so I went and got a replacement.
A few minutes later, still holding the baby, we went to get in the car. I turned her around and set her in her carseat so I could buckle her. And there was the passa, in her mouth!
We all laughed that she stole her big sister’s passa while her own was clipped to her shirt! I guess maybe they’re like shoes, you can’t have too many?!?
My five and four year-olds got a little creative while I was making dinner recently.
I let them eat some frozen blueberries to keep the whining at bay while I cooked. They took some liberties with their snack, and decorated the dishwasher as well.
After THIS experience with blueberry juice, I cannot tell you how relieved I was that they limited their canvas to the dishwasher. Blueberry juice washes off dishwashers. It does not wash off walls.
It’s wonderful, actually, how quickly they were able to clean the front of the dishwasher. This is precisely why I was able to smile, take pictures, and call it finger painting.
Did I mention that I recently found another spot in my dining room that has a blueberry stain we didn’t see 2 1/2 months ago when we were scrubbing walls? It’s about three feet further into the room, beneath the window and behind the curtains. I’m still wondering HOW that little incident happened! I’d love to have a replay of that one to watch. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. That’s life.
Hopeful Homemaker