Dear Time, Please slow down.  How did these children get so big? Life is going by so fast that I hardly have time to catch my breath. These children, who seek to find joy and happiness in every moment, are my teachers and yet I am so busy that sometimes I don’t pause to notice. […]

A surprise bike from the thriftshop. The first lesson: A father running alongside, never letting go no matter how much his back ached. A boy, so close to being five and all of the exciting changes that come with it. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: It is scenes like this that make me remember why I’m doing this.

Our dishwasher finally went kaput.  It’s been on the fritz for months, and to be honest, it has never worked right in the few years we’ve had it.  It did the worst job washing dishes, as opposed to our old one which would wash anything.  I swear you could put a whole chicken in there […]

Weren’t we just sick?  Yes, I believe so.  This time, everyone has fallen ill, so things here pretty much stopped over the weekend.  Usually I’m upset if I happen to be sick on a weekend, especially a three day holiday, but this time I was glad to have The Daddy Monkey home. So on Monday, […]

Please bear with me as I clear my head.  These thoughts have been weighing on my heart for a while now. Things at The Monkey House have been crazy the last six weeks.  Lots of sickness, teething, and overtime hours at work for the Daddy Monkey.  It’s enough to give any mama the feeling of […]

The Boy’s sickness went from getting better to much worse, literally overnight.  He awoke at four yesterday morning, crying in pain.  Bravo to The Daddy Monkey for providing comfort while I nursed The Girl.  There is nothing worse to a parent than seeing your child suffer, and knowing there is nothing you can do except […]

I woke up to the sound of The Boy’s footprints running through the house to check if The Easter Bunny had come during the night.  Since The Daddy Monkey was taking the kids to the grandparents’ house that morning, we had decided to do our Easter activities (baskets, egg hunt, dinner) when they returned. Big […]

Back before I had kids, I used to dress in cute funky outfits, wear nail polish, and sleep late.  These days I’m lucky if the clothes I’m wearing actually fit, there isn’t dirt under my fingernails, and I get to sleep three hours in a row. I used to sew almost all of my clothes, […]

Hello. I am still here. There’s the Happy Spring banner I made last year while The Girl was just two months old.  However did I manage that?  Ah yes, she used to nap.  The banner is felt and for some reason I just love it so much.  But I am a sucker for Spring anyway.  […]

The Boy and The Daddy Monkey were napping and The Girl toddled up to check out what I was doing.  I was working on stuffing the love birds (which much to my embarrassment, are still not finished).  First she pulled wads of the stuffing out of its box and handed them to me.  When she […]