Sweetness!!!

No I am not talking about candy! Although candy is becoming more of an intruder to my once candyless home. But I am referring to the sweetness of people. I have been doubly blessed to have 2 amazingly SWEET children. Now I am not referring to when the might be having a tantrum at the grocery store, but when they feel happy and safe in our home.

My 2 year old wonderful, spirited little girl can be suprisingly in an instant. She will become my "snuggle bunny" as she calls it and lays it on. She grasps my face and rubs her cheeks next to mine. Gives me a nose nuzzle and says "Your the best mommy in the whole world". She is very tactile and likes touching my face a lot. I love these moments and will stop numerous times a day to receive one of these snuggle sessions.

My 5 year old tender, bright son is in Kindergarten for much of the day. When he gets home mostly we begin a bargaining session of how much computer or Tv time is going to be allotted to the day. But he cares for people, in general, quite a bit. I sometime wonder what altruistic profession he might choose one day. So for my husband and I, we get a LOT of love back from him. He is very expressive and makes sure that no one leaves the house without a hug and a kiss. Life lessons to be learned from a 5 year old for sure. And just last night while tucking him in to bed, I teared up while I told him how proud we were of him and his reading. And a moment later, he had tears of "joy" while he said he had the "greatest mom and dad ever".

It is this sweetness from both of them that I remember whenever those tantrums arrive. Yes, even in the grocery store!

Yikes!

Sorry it has been too long on the blogging front. But there have been new changes in the Work AT Home front. I have become a guide at ChaCha which is really fun! You can learn more about it at ChaCha.com. Also, I have become involved with MommyMixer, which I am super excited about. See MommyMixer.com for details. There are a couple of other opportunities that I'm working on, but I'll let you know how those pan out.

Hallomaybe???

Well. We are about to embark on the fun filled night of Halloweening. My son is ready to to adorn his Black Spiderman costume, which he has already played in, slept in, you name it. And my daughter will be Herself?!? In her closet will be this gorgeous Snow White dress, never worn, and she will be wearing regular clothes. Why will she not wear it? Who knows, she's only 2 (or maybe that is the reason) Suffice it to say I will be hoping against all hope that tomorrow will be different. Maybe the enticement of all the candy will be enough. We will just have to see.

Power of Pigtails

Oh the power of pigtails. They must have some hypnotic power that cannot be blocked by the typical human brain. Take my example.... little girl crying over broken cookie = sorry honey its still the same cookie, just eat it. same little girl crying (this time with hair in adorable pigtails) = Awww honey don't cry, lets see if we can get you one that's not broken. Go figure... And their power seems to intensify for daddies. Hmmmm, I wonder if I'm too old for pigtails...

The terrible threes???

OK... So I subscribe to one of those parenting websites that send you age appropriate emails about your kids.... OK so I subscribe to maybe more than one. Anyway, my most recent one is about how age three might actually be worse than age two as far as the "terrible" stage goes. Are you kidding me??? Now I know this isn't new news by any means. And its true I have a five year old so "its not the first time I've been around this block" but come on... I already have my rose colored glasses on when I remember my sons earlier years. I will try to block this thought of the "terrible threes" whenever my freshly turned two year old throws a tantrum when she wakes up, or when I don't let her climb into her car seat, or when I think she's done pooping in her diaper (even when she says she's got more). Jeez! Can you believe she's already shushing me? I better go ahead and phone in my Valium order for her thirteenth birthday... I have a feeling I'm gonna need it. :)

Dont ever be late!

I just found out I can never be late to car pool pickup. Not because of the school, but because of my sweet and tender son. I went through the car line at normal time, but he must have not heard his name being called because when I got to the front of the building he wasn't there. They called his name again and he came out crying. He said he thought I had forgotten about him. Jeez! I wasn't even late! I told him I would never forget him, but now I've started getting there even earlier and he notices. "Mom how did you get here so fast" I'm really setting myself up for the day when I'm five minutes late...

Peer pressure on my side...

Can I just say, I am lovin school lunches. I decided to let my son eat school lunch the first week, so that he could get used to the process of waiting in line, ordering and paying. After that, I could make him a lunch when he wanted take one. Well, here we are two weeks in, and no complaints. No "I dont like my lunch" or "can I just have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich". These are of course what he says to me when he is home. Now dont get me wrong, these are not free range organic meals we're talking about. But they are hot (semi) nutritious meals that my son would NEVER choose ordinarily. And thats the thing, he has a CHOICE at lunch and he is CHOOSING baked chicken over hamburgers. Well, my thanks go to you other little kindergartners for getting my son to eat real food at school. Next week, could you work on getting more fish into his diet???