Today was Jude’s last day of soccer on his combined boy/girl team of 5 to 7 year olds. Jude’s team hasn’t won a game and it’s not from his lack of trying. He likes to blame the girls that he doesn’t think are aggressive enough. Today, he was bound and determined to win and was …
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Cleaning Competition
Tonight I challenged the boys to a cleaning competition. The one boy that did the best job cleaning up the toys in the playroom would win a prize. Jude was doing a great job, but then seemed concerned about what the prize might be. I was running around cleaning up the house and he yelled …
Asher’s Quote of the Day
“Me have stinky butt!”
Nis, Nat, and Nese
Jude’s behind the scenes kindergarten/1st grade teacher last year recommended extra handwriting practice to prepare him for 2nd grade this year. He ended up getting accepted into Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of MN occupational therapy program for handwriting, probably because of the brain cancer diagnosis and the possible impact his brain injury has had on fine motor skills. His …
Rushing Around
After church today, we swung through the Burger King drive thru. We had just an hour and a half to get 4 heads of hair cut and get everyone dressed and looking their best for a family photo shoot. After Burger King, we dropped in at a local hair salon. There was going to be …
Soccer Star
Jude is winding up his first ever crack at soccer through park and rec. It turns out, he’s really good (relatively speaking). He is on the ball like glue, but so much so that he sometimes even steals it from him teammates. He scored his team’s only goal today. I had to laugh when the …
Levi’s Quote of the Day
Levi, who is 3, and who seems to think that if he grows bigger, he gets older, said: “I had vitamins in my juice so maybe I’m 4.”
Jude’s Quote of the Day
To me when he overheard me trying to delegate diaper duty to Andy, “Mommy, you’re a parent too!”
Sprung from Prison (for the Day at Least)
Nursing homes escapes run in my family, going back at least a generation. My grandma did it. My grandpa did it. And now we are planning my mom’s own escape.  My mom has been recovering from knee and shoulder surgery at a nursing home near my house. It was not the one I had chosen for her, …
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Levi’s Quote of the Day
Levi said to me while we were at home today, “Mommy, I want to pee on the grass outside.” Born to be wild!