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Necklace Making

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I pulled out this work for Turtle the other day during her "quiet time." She really enjoyed making necklaces from the shells, pasta noodles, beads and cut straws. I hope to present this to Rosebud someday soon. I remember that Turtle used to really love it when she was two and a half.

Seven Quick Takes, vol 6

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#1. It's been so long since I posted. I miss writing on this blog. Somedays I actually compose a post in my head even though I never actually post it, just so I can "write" something. I'm feeling rather in above my head these days with three little ones. Some days are so hard. Some days are manageable. But every day is challenging for me. Every day stretches me, if not to the breaking point, at least to the hurting point. I am needed by someone all the time. And that's really hard. Some days, when I'm standing at the sink doing dishes at midnight or eating lunch at 3pm, or getting up at 6am to grab a shower, or rocking a wide-awake baby at 2am, I wonder if its just going to be this hard forever. Other days, days like this: I am so very grateful to be doing what I am doing, to have these girls and to be blessed with this life. I wish those grateful, peaceful moments came along a wee bit more often, though! :) #2 On another note, we are so glad spri...

Questions, Questions

TURTLE: Mommy, why does Blessed Mother have a sword in her heart? Is Jesus sleeping on the cross? Did Jesus cry on the cross? Why the bad soldiers not like Jesus? Are the bad soldiers going to put me on the cross? Why did they leave Jesus all by himself in the tomb? ******* Can we go to that "Jesus' House"? Is that a Mackalick Church? (Catholic) Why don't we go to that Church? Why don't they have mackertackles (tabernacles) and Fathers? ******** How did [Sunshine] come out of your tummy? Did you cut your tummy? Did it hurt to get her out? How did you close the hole back up? With tape?

Thinking of

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SPRING with great longing these days. This long long winter and many many hours indoors in this little house are wearing on all of us. Turtle is whiny and bored and has many "fits" a day. Rosebud is madly jealous of Sunshine and therefore spends all her time destroying things, antagonizing Turtle and trying her darndest to hurt Sunshine through any method possible -- squeezing, biting, poking, smothering, etc. Mommy is overwhelmed, hormonal and impatient. Sunshine, dear little Sunshine lives up to her name by being the sweetest, most patient and adorable little blessing, but somedays I wonder if the rest of us are missing her loveliness because we are too wrapped up in being completely at at odds with each other. It's hard not to feel like a failure as a mother in these last interminable days of winter as I stumble through the day (in my pajamas half the time) striving to get everybody fed and clothed and bathed and read to and hugged and wondering if their frustrating b...