Everyday Mommy

…yesterday afternoon Johnny and I needed to run an errand. We got ourselves together and I took his face in my hands to give him a kiss on the cheek. He rewarded me with a smile and I noticed something.
“Johnny,” I said with a bit of alarm. “Did you lose another tooth?” [...]

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I’ve been in a rut. A motherhood rut. A rut that has lasted for six & a half years. It began when Johnny was born. I became a mother, thus the rut. I quickly became accustomed to all the things motherhood entails, from caring and feeding to burping and thinking [...]

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Last night my heart was broken by a little boy whose heart was broken by a small bowl of 28¢ fish. 28¢ worth of love and anticipation, carefully held and named on the ride home.
“This one will be called Shiny,” he said, pointing to the minnow that darted about inside the plastic bag. [...]

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Yesterday brought a trip to the mall for a new battery toy for momma cell phone and a stop at ToysRUs where Johnny relieved that burning in his pocket by spending $10 which had been accumulated through various chores, visits from the tooth fairy and Grammy & Bop. The cash had been stashed in [...]

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This post is for my beloved friend, Fiona.
When I was a new mother, in the trenches of the maternal swamp with all the trappings of motherhood like diapers and wipes and bottles (no…I did not breast feed) and teething and very little sleep, not to mention no time for more than simple personal hygiene, [...]

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The other day, during homeschool time, Johnny and I were talking about this beautiful country in which we live. Making use of a map puzzle of the United States we talked about most of the 50 states and the different things they bring to our nation.
“Have you been to the Rocky Mountains, Momma?” [...]

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What do you do when spring just hasn’t sprung, when the cold and rainy days keep coming and the cabin fever has you feeling so gloomy that you don’t know what to do? Why, you put up a tent on the bed and play camping! Few things go together like little boys [...]

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“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.” — Charles Spurgeon

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While I was away from blog land, Johnny changed from my little baby LoveBug into a real, live boy. Only you fellow moms will know what I mean and only you moms know the twinge of joy mixed with melancholy at seeing your baby transformed before your eyes. Here he is, concentrating on [...]

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