I just read a great article , among the many on powerofmoms.com about Priorities (Power of the Month Moms!) and I loved the line: 'Am I “serving time” instead of serving my family?' because that is the question in my head - I just didn't put it so well! I feel like I'm serving time some days! Watching the clock desperately for the 6:30 mark where I can start getting the kids to bed, (yet somehow not getting them to bed till 8:30 - and i'm not even preparing anything more than cheese and meat or bread and peanut butter for dinner! I am honestly praying that the day nausea ends will come very very soon because I am ready to quit. This is the one job on the planet that you CAN'T quit though, so I just have to hope and pray and know I can't quit but ward God that I will really try if something isn't done about this! It has been the longest 3 months of my life and every day seems like an eternity and every task is just that much harder, takes longer and ...

I love the website: http://www.valuesparenting.com/ It is run by Richard and Linda Eyres. They are the founders of Joy School if you are familiar with that. I met them while I lived in Utah and they absolutely amazing people. In any case, they have recently written a book called: The Entitlement Trap : How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning, and Ownership It is an amazing parenting resource - as all their books and blogs are They are doing a special promotion today: By pre-ordering the book (following the links at the end of this page), you will: Pay about $12 rather than the $18 the book retails for after its official release Be one of the first to receive the book (you’ll get it September 6th, the very day booksellers get it) If you email your pre-order receipt to honesty@theeyres.com , you'll also receive: A link to a free animated musical audio book for children on Honesty (the first in the applauded children’s CD seri...

If you have met or know my Dad, you probably know why I think he is the most amazing man alive. But this summer, while I was away from my wonderful husband, my Dad pulled through as my real live superman. I was truly a maiden in distress and came to the rescue. He held my hair back and brought me water as I puked, he bought me ice cream when I couldn't eat anything else and didn't even flinch when I ordered a tripple (: and he took care of my two wild kids while I lay around incapacitated, he even taught Brooklyn how to hit her first tennis ball over the net while I slept at home. Where he really went above and beyond is when he took it upon himself to help me ween the most addicted nursing toddler in the history of the world. Jude, at 17 months was still nursing between 6 and 9 times a day! - well I should say night. Since we had been sleeping in the same room since early May, and always where he would wake up several people when he started screaming, he lea...