Grandma O’Bryant’s house Then and Now

I’ve wanted to go see my grandmother’s house since moving to Knoxville a few months ago, but I didn’t want to go alone so I waited until my sister Krista could come with me.
This is what the house used to look like and except for the fact that there were a lot more trees [...]

Nature vs Nurture. . . .really?!

I don’t think anyone who has had a little boy could make the argument that masculinity  is something that we train in our kids.  When Isaac was 17 months old, someone handed me a book full of trucks to show him.  I assumed the book would not hold his attention for long, after all it [...]

The tradition continues

This is old news now, but I thought I ought to update my blog and decided to scroll through recent pictures for inspiration and all of Charlotte’s recent pictures make me think of this event/story.
Charlotte gave herself a haircut.  I was lucky—it wasn’t too bad and it was on the verge of being much [...]

Excerpt from when Isaac was 3 and Charlotte was 1 1/2:

6.20.07 Today Isaac brought his toy jeep over to me and said “mom, want some noise” then he turned it on.  6.21.07 Today I took Isaac to the post office with me to buy stamps.  I let him put the money in, make the selection and then collect the change at the end.  As [...]

Excerpt From the Log:

I scrolled through my log and choose a date at random—here’s what I wrote on February 6th of last year:
2.6.09 Here are some recent things the kids said:  "I would sleep so hard that I couldn’t wake up. I’d be stuck asleep and you’d have to kiss me to wake me up. Would you kiss [...]

More posts to come. . .

Every so often I think I should write a blog post, but then I never do.  I blame the fact that I have 4 children and whenever I sit down to do something not related to cleaning, the house seems to fall apart.  The other night I updated my log of funny things my kids [...]