The Thoughtful Homemaker

I am trying desperately to figure out a way to get my kids to do chores. I tried charts, but they never work for me. Charts only work when I am trying to get them to get a new habit like bedroom or a morning routine. Chores are another thing because we need to do […]

On March 29, 2008, when Obama was speaking in Pennsylvania he was asked about his views on abortion, this is what happened:
“He was cruising along in the question-and-answer format, when a woman asked his view on abortion, but what he said surely did not please his pro-life supporters:
“Look, I’ve got two daughters — […]

Aron and I play a little game. I ask him who he is, he tells me he is hulk or ironman. Hulk and Ironman are his favorite cartoon characters. Then I tell him, “no, you are Elmo!” Then he tells me, “NO! I am Peter Parker! You are a pizza!” Then I tell him, “you […]

I was tired of my ids saying things like, “I hate you!” or “You’re stupid!” so I talked to the kids and told them to come up with something silly to say when they get angry. Jon came up with “you ate my pizza!” That is what we say now when we get angry and […]

Lately blogging has been such a challenge. I do not understand how people work from home. I am sure they have some sort of system that I would like to know about. It is even difficult for me to check email or the news sometimes.
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I was reading the peoples cube and they were talking about pasting Obama’s picture to this poster.
So I was looking at the poster laughing thinking about Obama’s face being there (this is in response to the you tube video where the kids are singing praises to Obama) when Jon Jon comes over and sees […]

Aron told me he hated me for the first time. I was sending Victoria to the neighbor’s house to go to school. We live less than a five minute’s walk from school and the neighbor’s daughter is in Victoria’s class so Victoria goes to school with the neighbors. We decided that was better than me […]

Victoria still loves rhythmic gymnastics. She looks forward to her class every Thursday and practices everyday. For a six year old she is doing well. I have never seen her so determined to do something well before. She wants to be a part of the team so she is working hard towards her goal. I […]

Aron is going through another phase of separation anxiety. This is the worst anxiety he has ever had. None of my other children ever had it that bad. Victoria got anxious, but showed it in different ways.
Aron screams whenever we walk towards an official looking building like a church, doctor’s office, or library. It […]

I was reading recently about the trend going on for the past twenty or so years of women choosing to have small families as opposed to former generations when women had as many children as possible. It got me to thinking about how many children I wanted when I was young, and how many children […]

It is funny how each child is so different. Aron as an 18 month old is very different from Jon as an 18 month old. Jon liked to play with toys for hours and destroy and color on things. He was so focused that you had to fight to GET his attention. He wasn’t a […]

I always thought it was annoying to see babies use baby sign language, now I am completely sold on it.  Baby sign language is an excellent way to learn language. The key is to always say the word when you are doing the sign.
A neighbor I have, who speaks several languages, told me how she […]

Aron first words were “What’s this?” and “Aziz”.
He says “What’s this” a lot and whenever he picks up something.
Now he says “go!”. Whenever he sees me put my shoes on he starts saying “go! go! go!”.  That means he wants to take a walk in his stroller. If I walk past his stroller towards the […]

Today was a really rough day. As you may know, I am alone with my three angels while my husband is away doing Army training for three weeks. I have never missed him as much as I did today!
Today was rough! Aron kept me up until 7 AM because I think he was teething. […]

Jonny got a new toddler Bible yesterday. He is real excited about. We sat down together and looked at the pictures. I had Jonny “read” the Bible to me. The first page was about the creation. Jonny said, “God made the world, he made the whale and the lion.” Then we turned to the next […]

My youngest is now 9 months and is still not crawling. He sits on his bottom and scoots himself around. I am not too worried about him not crawling yet. I know every baby does things differently.
One day I found a tiny chicken bone in his mouth. We haven’t had chicken with bones in the […]