• Games,  Kids

    Carrots, Pickles & Twinkies: aka “Our Weird Car Game Code”

    It all started with a Twinkie. Not the actual sponge cake bar of creamy goodness, mind you, but the shriek of, “TWINKIEEE!!!” triumphantly exclaimed from my backseat.  All it took was a single shout of “Twinkie” to put us on the cut-throat roller coaster of competition that is The Car Game. There were no reason for the shout. We were in the car, on the way to dropping #2 off at a friend’s house. # 5 and #6 had come along for the ride. My natural response was, “Where? What Twinkie??” To which #2 casually replied, “Over there. The yellow car; she found it.” Wait- whaat? And yes, my next…

  • Girly,  Memories,  Outings

    Horsing Around

    As a stay-at-home mom of six, it can be challenging for me to make time to spend quality, one-on-one moments with each of my kids. I find that I occasionally drift into the herd mentality, where I focus on the basic feeding, care & transport of the entire group. But I know that kids not only crave that solo time with their parent(s), but need it in order to thrive. So a great opportunity came my way recently to spend quality time with #2, via her Girl Scout troop. The troop leaders planned a special getaway weekend- just the moms and the girls. As in, just myself and #2. Alone.…

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