Author: Cindy

This morning Billy woke up before his allowed time to get up.  Kevin was helping Rusty, so I tried to keep Billy quiet by laying on my bed with him.  I kept telling him that he had to stay there until Poppy came back (knowing that Rusty would never go back to sleep if he […]

I was once told that the odd years were full of tears.  I’m beginning to believe it.  My poor Ricky struggles to control his emotions many days.  Tonight, he had a disagreement over a toy and started to cry.  When my mom asked him why he was crying, Ricky answered through a screwed up red […]

Today we had our family Christmas party.   The boys were very excited about having company and as soon as people started showing up, they ran up and down the stairs screaming in delight.  The excitement did get to be too much for a tired Ricky, but in all it was a lot of fun. As […]

We got a good snowfall last week and Billy has been a bit confused by it.  He sees the snow outside and tells us, “It’s Christmas outside!”  We must have told him a gazillion times that Christmas is coming but isn’t here yet. This morning there is a fun fog that has rolled in and […]

Kevin was shoveling the driveway before we headed to church and Billy saw him out the front window.  This is the conversation I had with Billy. Billy – “Ohhh, Poppy a bad boy!” Me – “Why is Poppy bad?” Billy – “He throw snow on the ground.” Me – “Oh, and we aren’t supposed to […]