Army Wife Step Mom

05/10/2013

Need input: I really love the Windex Multisurface products. Is it wrong to just keep one bottle of that in each room for kids to use for chores? We've used glass cleaners and an antibacterial for different duties. I know it would be so much easier, but is it too lazy?

05/07/2013

Military Spouse appreciation day at the Exchange. I signed up for drawings and got Lindt and Godiva samples. I guess that cancels out the 3 mile walk I took after dropping the kidlets at school. ;-)

05/03/2013

Chores and attention deficit make for a very lousy day home from school. Any tricks of the trade to share for 6-9 year olds who have trouble focusing?

05/01/2013

Getting misty-eyed listening to Celine Dion's "I'm Alive" - as our 9 yr old practices her dance recital finale. Such an uplifting song that stirs my feelings about dance and what it did for me as a kid.

04/18/2013

This is dinner tonight. Making the waffles up this morning to speed the process. With another cold soccer practice ahead and a freeze warning tonight, I thought a little comfort food was in order.

Cornmeal Waffles with Chili You know that psychological test when one person says a word and you say the first thing that pops into your head? Peanut Butter ... Jelly. Milk ... Cookies. Chocolate ....

04/17/2013

You will understand my qualms over testing this morning. It's been18 yrs since Statistics in college, 20 since Calculus in high school - and 23!!! Since Algebra.

04/16/2013

39 degrees at the soccer game tonight. Brr!

04/15/2013

I'm looking into becoming a partner with this organization. My parents began reading to me BEFORE I was born. My youngest kiddos now have made a world of improvement with the addition of reading aloud and trying to create a culture of reading in the home.

Read Aloud 15 MINUTES. Every child. Every parent. Every day.

04/15/2013

Considering a rough schedule for myself during school days. Any moms out there do this? (I.E. 9-10am clean, 10-11am laundry, 11-noon eat lunch and prep dinner, etc?

04/11/2013

Last week it was ketchup. Today it is hot chocolate. I love finding the commissary items marked at $0.30 and stocking up.

04/10/2013

Read this today - It's something I've been working on figuring out appropriately. My youngest step kiddos haven't had the attention of a functional mother figure, and I'm happy to provide that watch watch them grow. But, I want to help build them into confidant and service-oriented adults too.

Mothering article, The Benefits of Ignoring Children (Sometimes) When I first became a mother I was always "there." You know. Answering every question. Watching

04/09/2013

While I type away on applications, the family animals are clearly stressed (or not)