Category Archives: Little Feet

Simple Sunday – Cookies and Cheese

Posted on August 28, 2016 by

This weekend Carter wanted to bake cookies with me. He decided on peanut butter with chocolate chips. After all the ingredients had been carefully measured and mixed – well, as carefully as an impatient eight-year-old boy can be – Carter … Continue reading →

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From the top of the driveway

Posted on August 20, 2016 by

We emptied a container of salsa during dinner this evening.  As I was walking back from the recycling bin at the top of our driveway, I stopped and looked down the drive, my eyes traveling the road leading away.  I … Continue reading →

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Diarrhea and Diabetes

Posted on May 17, 2016 by

It started with an arm fart.  You know the noise.  The one that is produced when lips blow onto the skin of the arm close to or on the crook of the elbow. It was a juicy one.  Produced by … Continue reading →

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Letting Go

Posted on April 28, 2016 by

I was fully planning on being one of those parents, the ones who read parenting books in a (what I now know is futile) attempt to arm themselves with answers, to better understand the role of a parent.  Husband and … Continue reading →

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Need some Milk to go with that Bowl of Red Blood Cells?

Posted on April 26, 2016 by

Breakfast conversation: It started with bran and our ignorance on the subject. Lately Cody’s favorite breakfast cereal is All-Bran.  I know.  It is a strange cereal to be declared anyone’s favorite cereal, much less a ten year olds.  I think … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – 10

Posted on April 17, 2016 by

Yesterday Cody turned ten. The big one zero. The full two hands. Double digits. Wow. Every year, I go back and reread the first post I wrote about his birthday and every year it gives me chills.  Those of you … Continue reading →

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Smooth Talkin’ Seven Year Old

Posted on March 26, 2016 by

I am not one to splurge, especially on myself.  But today, I did.  It wasn’t much of a splurge as far as splurges go, but it made me very happy and it was inexpensive.  It was a bracelet, four stretchy … Continue reading →

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Duck (s)! and Green Hats

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

When we moved into our house last year, the swimming pool came complete with three ducks, two of which were real and one was of the plastic top, floating chlorine tablet holder variety.  After a week or so, the real … Continue reading →

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Those People

Posted on March 16, 2016 by

Today we were those people. You know the ones. The people who have pool noodle battles in the middle of the Costco parking lot. Our last summer pool noodles, the cheap Home Depot ones, had long ago gone the way … Continue reading →

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In One Eye Blink

Posted on December 28, 2015 by

Carter had great plans for his dreams last night. In his dreams, he was going to fight and defeat Kylo Ren, a character from the new Star Wars movie we saw yesterday. Upon awaking this morning he stumbled into Husband’s … Continue reading →

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