Indian Time - A Voice from the Eastern Door

After work on Friday my niece came to visit. She always makes me laugh with her girliness. It’s been a while since she’s slept over and I got a big dose of all the things my boys don’t like but...

Big Brother has always needed a push when it comes to trying new things or venturing off by himself. Many a time I have seen his brown eyes look to me and when we make eye contact he takes a big...

After being in complete awe at how well my kids have gotten along, I was thrown for a loop with Little Brother. He has these ninja turtles that he plays with and last night he lost something that...

This week Big Brother has taken on a sweet mentoring role with Little Brother. They are hanging out every waking moment except when they are in school. In the morning Big Brother has taken pride in...

I have come to expect the unexpected. To be ready for plans to fall apart. Prepared that my kids will find ways to outsmart me. Surprises such as candy wrappers in my shoes and laundry stuffed in the...

We’ve all heard of Murphy’s Law and I even once wrote about how it directly affects moms. Well I’m just going to go and name things I think fall under Mom law; things that happen, or seem to hap...

When I get an idea of something I’d like to do with the kids I do it. The kids have learned from that and there are times that they get an idea and expect us to drop everything and pull off their sp...

This week we were asked to housesit for grandpa. Big brother was so excited to spend a whole week sleeping somewhere besides at home. To him it’s like a vacation. Little brother was a bit harder to...

With all my nagging the boys I shouldn’t have been surprised when the boys came up with a nickname for me. I first caught on when I saw Little Brother mouth a word to Big Brother and watched the two...

In an effort to teach my sons how about chores and responsibilities, I’ve really had to crack the whip. My struggle to enforce the clean up after yourself rule is an uphill one. A good example, I...

It’s February break and the boys have been hanging out with me. Since there was no school, my mom offered to take Big Brother for one night this week. She came and picked him up around lunchtime....

On Friday the kids were lucky and got a snow day. No school meant sleeping in and staying in jammies. They were so happy when they woke up on their own and realized that they had slept in and could...

We do a lot of joking around at this house. Even when we have kids visiting we have to pull their leg or test out their gullibility. Last week we had a packed house. Both American and Canadian...

The last few weeks have been especially trying. You know that old saying bad news come in threes? Well in my case it’s more like multiply it by 3 and then maybe one more time for good measure. It...

Little brother is my little cuddler. He always has needed to be held or have to be right next to us to fall asleep. The only times he’s fallen asleep alone is in his car seat. On rare occasions...

When you have kids you can bet money on them embarrassing you throughout their childhood. They don’t do it on purpose but it is given in to this merry-go-round ride of motherhood. Now I have two...

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. I know my boys did. Big brother had been counting down the days until Christmas break for two weeks before it arrived. All he wanted to do was stay home, sleep...

I had planned on doing an article about things that we are thankful for around Thanksgiving but it didn’t work out. Once in awhile I find it good to give shout-outs to those individuals and...

There is nothing that gets my kids off track like long weekends and school vacations. Little Brother went back to school this week with such a fight that I feared the future years of dragging him to...

Big brother has recently become more into having friends and hanging out rather than wanting to play video games or go to the playground. If we are headed to the playground he asks, “Who can we...

This weekend Big Brother turned eight years old. Leading up to it he had big plans but he kept changing his mind. He had overheard grownups talk about this new addition to the Carousel Mall in...

This past weekend as everyone turned their clocks back we played catch up. I knew it had to be done and still I let it slip. The next day we all went by the wrong time for a few hours. We called...

It’s become that time again. The boys have begun to want their mom or their dad all to themselves. It happens when we baby-sit a lot or our schedule gets so busy that we haven’t been given the...

When raising children you are responsible for so much. We teach them to share, encourage them to be brave and give them a shoulder to cry on.  We listen to their fears and try to coax them to...

Lately Little Brother has become quite the little pretender. It’s hilariously cute, the things he comes up with and it’s fun to watch. A serious look will come across his little face, you know...