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Posts Tagged ‘things my kids say’

Parenting FAIL: The Conversation Edition

Peyton – Why is my poo green? Yesterday it was yellow. I have RAINBOW butt! Nathaniel – Ohhh! You said the word you said I couldn’t say even if I was on fire. Rachael – What do you call that? *poke poke* Me – Muffin top Rachael – You might need to lay off the [...]

What else would it smell like?

So there I am. Cuddled warm and cozy on my bed, reunited with a pillow I left at a friend’s house a month ago, eyebrow deep in Jen Lancaster’s book “Such a Pretty Fat”….which, is HYsterical, but also makes me feel a tad guilt-ridden because I am not using the gym membership I started in [...]

Oh the games that children play

Peyton’s last day of chemo picture (taken with my awesomely new and fabulous camera!) Peyton’s announcement: “I showed all my friends my port at school today and Hayden didn’t believe it was a port.  He says it was my boob and it’s not a boob, it’s my PORT. So I showed him that it wasn’t [...]

Anissa of Fairbanks, Indiana

I am adopted. Born somewhere in the Seoul, Korea area, maybe…but definitely abandoned there. Left by indefinable people in a hospital to be cared for, sick…malnourished (don’t laugh, but I’ve taken full care of THAT part)…alone. As a child I struggled with the abandoned part of my orphan story, even though I knew that it [...]