Mama-luia

Joining up with Kelly this fine Friday! I simply can't do a blog post a la Modern Mrs. Darcy's What's Saving My Life Now  because mine isn't a life that is in actual peril. I mean, seriously, unless your list includes "chemotherapy" or something, that level of hyperbole is preposterous. But we've have a doozy of a January. Everyone has been sick, and most of the kids have cycled through multiple sicknesses amongst themselves (really since November!) meaning I've been stuck in the house, sanitizing counters and laundry with bleach and my anxiety-riddled tears, to top off the usual crummy weather of winter. It hasn't been pretty. But it has been good . (Preaching to myself here.) Hence I wanted to share a list of 'what's improving my life right now'... if nothing else, to remind myself that it's not that bleak even when we leave playgroup an hour early because one child who looked fine and dandy in the morning f...

Probably anyone who reads this blog familiar with the book " The Seven Silly Eaters " but for those who aren't, it's an absolutely charming tale of a couple who have a baby, and then another one, and then another one, all the way up to seven children in rapid succession, including twins. Each child is beloved and sweet... and each child comes with his or her own peculiar food preference and will not tolerate anything else. The kind but harried mother is left preparing seven different meals for her seven silly eaters every single day. It's told in delightful rhymes and the illustrations are simultaneously charming and hilarious as the happy but chaotic family life is chronicled. My children love this book, and have large sections memorized from having read it to them over and over. I'm not sure what it says about me that the first line they learned by heart, and recited with the most enthusiasm was... "Peeling apples by the peck, Mrs. Peters was a...