TwinkleToes has had brief periods of sleep problems but for the most part she’s a dream to parent when it comes to sleep. After dealing with years of sleep issues (where no one got more than an hour or two of sleep at a time, for years), I know how lucky we are.
For instance, today [...]

I have asked GlitterGirl’s teachers to let me know if they are going to be talking about family or genetics or anything along those lines, so we could have a conversation about it at home as well. So far I’ve either gotten a note or an email letting me know about such things and there [...]

We’ve made it through another week. I wish I could say we are getting settled into a schedule, but really at this point we’re just managing to flail around and stay above water without going under.
We also had a rough time after a boy at school taunted GlitterGirl for her small nose. The teacher is [...]

I followed through with my plan for last night. RK and I had chips with cheese and margaritas and I slept like a baby. Well, better than the baby actually, since she woke up at 4:00 and demanded that the rest of the house wake up as well. But, ten minutes soothing her and we [...]

This week has been a tough week. Homework is becoming more involved, GG’s extracurricular activity is kicking into high gear, and there are only so many hours in the day. By the time I get home from work there is really only enough time to eat and do a little bit of homework and then [...]

I do everything I can to make mornings go as easy as possible. I lay clothes out the night before, baths are done the night before if they are needed, and everyone goes to bed 30 minutes before I’d like for them to be asleep.
And some mornings this works. I wake up and get myself [...]

TwinkleToes likes spicy food. No, she loves it. When she eats something spicy there are lots of sound effects that let us know she thinks it is yummy.
GlitterGirl can’t eat anything that’s the least bit spicy or there is much drama about how bad it burns. She doesn’t eat onions (even cooked onions if she [...]

GlitterGirl did not respond well to the “X is not for Y” phrase. She’d try to explain to me why I was wrong. Her thought processes basically being that she was doing Y with X and it seemed to be working just fine. Even before she could talk, you could see it in her eyes. [...]

It looks like Friday evenings are destined to be the “late dinner because we talked” night.
GlitterGirl was so tired last night. We talked and then ate and she actually went to bed early on her own. I don’t believe that has never happened before.
But then she was up at four o’clock this morning and “bored”. [...]