Matti Mattila (This is a re-post from January 2012 when the twins were just six months old and my older kids were 3 and 5. It was a crazy time. This January I’m working full time and my kids are sick (as is par for the course come January) – it...
He was a dead ringer for the kid from A Christmas Story. A short, chubby boy with an overgrown buzz cut and thick, dark rimmed glasses. Dressed in navy sweats from head to toe, he ran back and forth along the edge of the playground, arms pumping, breath...
Photo Credit In the rush between dinner and dessert, in the harried press to Get-These-Kids-to-Bed, four-year-old Isaiah remembers. Running through the house, he shouts, “Guys! We need to do our yeaves!” // My family is growing leaves again this...
Reaching across the purple loveseat where we sat, I grabbed a hunk of my husband’s wildly overgrown hair and held it between my fingers. “I have an idea,” I said, “Let’s hold Daddy down and cut his hair.” The kids, sprawled around the room in various stages of...
I hate Skittles. I do not want to, as the slogan goes, “Taste the rainbow.” If a Skittle accidentally fell into my mouth, I would spit it out. This is how I feel about most candy. Except for sour patch kids. Levi and Isaiah, however, like...
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