by Robin | Mar 24, 2011 | Family, Funny Stuff!, Humor, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
He's amused, this boy-man of mine, perhaps more with himself than me; he knows . He likes this power, the ingenuity to hold me hostage, to keep me waiting and wondering, the ability to make me laugh. It is his super power and he brandishes it at will...
by Robin | Mar 17, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
The moon is halfway through the sky and I am alone when they bring her to me and I'm glad. She is joy bundled in flannely white with end stripes in pink and blue. I smile to think she looks like an ice cream cone–swaddled tightly with the...
by Robin | Mar 2, 2011 | Advice, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
My husband (who's celebrating his birthday today!!) is an excellent financial manager. This has proven important in our marriage since I’m partial to words, not math or anything remotely associated with budgets–he’s much better at crunching numbers...
by Robin | Feb 8, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
"I just wanna tiss, it, kay?" It was her standard line to get away with murder of the four-year-old variety. Earnest eyes, furrowed brow and nodding head, practiced assurances she'd deliver on that promise. Saucer-sized baby blues have...
by Robin | Jan 23, 2011 | Faith, Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Music, Parenting, youtube ROCKS!
By Mercy Me, this song has a powerful message I wish every tween and teenage girl could hear. But mostly believe. The lyrics bear repeating– Days will come when you don't have the strengthAnd all you hear is you're not worth...
by Robin | Jan 17, 2011 | Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Real beauty, Smiles, Sponsored post
I've always been a smiler. In grainy black and white images from my youngest years, evolving to grainy matte finished images from a Kodak Instamatic, I always mugged for the camera like my parents were paparazzi. Even when I was snaggled toothed. ...