I wiped my kitchen counters for the first time in a week, which means my parents have headed back home to the prairies and it’s up to me again to keep this house running.
Today we blew bubbles, mopped the floor, ate twice-baked potatoes, and laughed a lot.
I adore her crazy, tangled mop of wild curls. So her.
Playtime with Daddy gets the biggest giggles out of these girls.
The most important lesson I have learned in parenting is this: lower your expectations.
That may sound cynical, but it’s been the key to my not losing it when things don’t go as planned.
In the past week I have tried a few times to take a nausea-induced rest upstairs while the girls play quietly, with somewhat limited success.
Having been lucky enough to dodge the morning sickness bullet with my first two pregnancies, I used to think that women who suffered from it were kind of just being whiney.
Maniacs from Amanda on Vimeo.
This is how we pass the time on long afternoons.