Indian Time - A Voice from the Eastern Door

The boys have become increasingly independent over the last year, more so over the summer. It seemed the more time they spent at home with me or their father the more they yearned to go sleepover at...

Monday my boys and I both had a real day off. That is a rare thing and we were determined about taking full advantage. After all it was our only time where we didn’t have any place to be except w...

There are many lessons you teach your children, some more frequently the others. Some arise all on their own without you having to facilitate an example. Others come from the world. We learn many less...

The last few weeks have been so jam packed full of worry and hurt that it’s been practically impossible to sit down and write. Big brother went through a four day hospital stay, where for the first c...

After two weeks of my kids telling me that they do not want to play soccer, I had one tell me that he did want to. Of course he told me on the last day to register...and when I only had about fifteen...

Little Brother has been working throughout the summer with his speech teacher. He wakes up early three days a week to ‘work’. We’ve seen such a tremendous change in the clarity and pronu...

The biggest deal to the boys about summer vacation is being able to sleep in. They get to most of the time except the mornings that little brother has speech in the morning. That is a challenge...

One very important lesson we try to teach the boys is honesty. To always own up to their messes and be honest. We tell the boys that their word matters so much to us and that we want to know we can...

This weekend’s trip took us to Boston. After the workday we got into our car and headed to St. Regis to pick up my mom. She had been patiently waiting for us to hit the road for an hour. Finally at 6...

After a busy week we made plans to take the kids out to Stanley Island. We hadn’t been yet this year and the boys have been asking and begging to know exactly when we were going to go. I always l...

We had another weekend filled with kids and silly conversations. Friday night my little niece came over and filled our home with all her fabulous girly talk. I took the boys and her to the movies...

I see you, the mom with a carload of kids doing it on her own. I just want you to know you’re setting a great example of perseverance and determination to those kids you’re carting around. They know a...

You know how as a mother you feel like a broken record? All the times you repeat yourself. I am endlessly saying, “no don’t do that” and then “ok it’s time to do this.” If I had to actually ad...

After years of the kids begging for a puppy we finally got one. It was a surprise addition that neither myself or my husband could have foreseen. We had a wild weekend sleepover that included four...

As the boys grew from babies into boys, the sort of things I stumbled across in daily life has changed. In the beginning of their little lives it was a pacifier under a couch or a baby sock in a cupbo...

As Little brother’s speech has become clearer his confidence has been on the rise. He has started to come out of his shell and ask for friends to come hang out. Before it was Big Brother’s bud...

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 I do....

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 happen, t...

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...

Every mother says her kids are growing up too fast. It’s not just a saying. You feel it, you really look at how big your kid is getting and your heart aches remembering the small bundle you started o...

This week I was trying to piece together Little Brother’s baby book. I thought about Big Brother’s baby book and how writing about what the kids do weekly kind of helps out in the memories dep...