New on The Spence Family--Sleep

It's been a rough week or two for Tyler. He gave up the binkies to the trash can. One had worn out (snipped), and the other was getting white marks from age and was also wearing down (snip snip). I asked him if he wanted to throw them away, and he did. He walked right over to the trash can and dropped them in.

No problem.

Though I suspected he might not sleep as well without them at first, little did I know he wouldn't only not sleep well without them, he wouldn't nap at all. I bought him some (rip off!) little Toy Story toys to hold in his bed instead, but when the initial excitement had worn off (i..e., one nap later),

he didn't want those in his bed anymore.

Then his cold got worse.

Then the time changed (curse time changes!)...

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New on The Spence Family--Halloween

Halloween

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New on The Spence Family--Whoa Mamma

I am not sure how old I was when I began to notice them, but I clearly remember noticing that some of the moms who dropped kids off at school in the morning were, well, not put together. In other words they never bothered to get dressed, instead arriving in pajamas or bathrobes, hair a mess. Since Karen was always dressed, and before that, the nice moms that drove us in "carpool" (they just gave us rides, their was not much trade) were dressed too, I always thought those other moms must have just gotten out of bed right in time to drive the kids to school. Nice of them, yes, but they looked a little lazy to me (clearly I thought I knew a lot back then).

Well, now I am one of those scary looking moms in the morning.

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New on The Spence Family--Clean Up

When Jack came up to me and asked if he could clean up a little, I of course said yes, please. Then he made a list of things to clean up, tally marking all the way. The last item on his list cracked me up. Paper plagues me too, Jack! Me too!!

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New on the Spence Family--The Pumpkin Patch

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New on the Spence Family--My Baby Brother is a Killer

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New on The Spence Family--Canning Season

It's canning season again. Every spring/summer for jams and jellies. Every October for apple butter, and applesauce. And every September for peaches, pears, tomatoes, and often grape juice.

This is what I wish I and my kitchen looked like every September.


from Blueberries for Sal, Robert McClosky

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