Putting the Puzzle Together

On fridays I stay at home with my youngest son who is 2 years old.   He’s pretty activity.  On this day he migrated from reading books to making me food in the play kitchen to assembling a puzzle.  In fact, he worked on that puzzle for a while.  At first, I didn’t want to intervene because I could see the wheels turning in his head.  But, if I’m honest, I was also learning some Read More …

Fish Sitting (Day 7)

Today was kind of a slow day here at home.  The two older children have had a temperature all day, so it has been a very mellow day.  I think Pigwidgeon was getting bored.  For most of the morning he rode the children’s rocking horse.  He was getting so into it, we had to re-fill his water twice.  It was as if he thought he was actually going to go somewhere.  I swore I heard Read More …

Fish Sitting (Day 6)

When I got home from church today, Jess was really excited.  She had successfully changed Pigwidgeon’s water without killing him.  This is quite a feat, be assured, because she has a 90% kill rate when cleaning fish tanks.  I am glad she did it too–he was starting to get a bit smelly and his bowl was starting to fill up with gunk.  I mean it was getting really nasty.  It kind of reminded me of Read More …