Pottying on the Floor and Proving my Husband Wrong

Big Brother Handbook

Fitness Update

Things I am Thankful For
God.  In my own quirky way.  I trust that one of the things you love about me is my logical mind.  Otherwise I’m sure you would not have given it to me.  We definitely have a personal relationship—you read my mind well. My wonderful husband.  He is my best friend, my confidant, and the only person I could imagine sharing my life with.  He gave me my children and he does his absolute best to provide for us all and nurture us as a family. My beautiful children.  God gave them to me to teach me patience and sacrifice. 

Remorse and the 5 year old
Often we doubt how we might be doing as a parent.  I find myself, that I use trial and error on many of the events that come my way.  The boys tend to throw me curve balls, and I often feel like I strike out.  There’s definitely not an adequate playbook out there. Because of all these many moments of vulnerability, it’s such a wonderful and rare moment that you have when your first born displays the type of emotion and remorsefulness that enables you to believe that you are doing a great job at raising a caring and empathetic individual.  The other day, Doc brought Bert home from school.  I normally pick up Bert, but Doc got home ear

Bert at 21 months (he’s now 5)
To you new people out there—his name isn’t really Bert.  I’ve been working on this one since yesterday.  Somewhere in there I aged him a bit, I think.  This is by far the best one I’ve done, I think.  I’m very happy with it.  I don’t like his reflection, so I might have to go back in

Peace in Forgiving
Forgiveness is something that I feel I learned more about well into my 20’s.  It’s not something that I was taught about, not at any length.  I always thought that forgiveness was something you did to let the other person off the hook.  Understandably, I did not like the idea of forgiving someone.  It wasn’t until I sat down with my old pastor and spoke to him that I learned something new about forgiveness.  It is not something you do to excuse someone.  It is simply something you do to get things off your chest and it is a way to deal with things, and still be able to interact with that person, or not.  It involves lifting the issues f

Hibiscus
Thanks to this picture (courtesy of this website) in google images, I was able to have a pretty Hibiscus to sketch today.  My goal was to apply some of the blending techniques that I learned from this