Family

A long-time reader wrote this morning with a question and my answer to her feels relevant to many other new moms I know so if you all don’t mind, I’d like to share. She writes:

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of friends doing the “Babywise” system….but I just get a bad feeling about the [...]

Here’s a glimpse into the Jost house with a song AJ and I made up for the twins to get some exercise and learn to follow direction. Simon says only lasts for so long!

They had already done it a few times so this isn’t the full song, but it’s the best [...]

Okay, so AJ has been having some “social trouble” at school. I’m just now getting over my shock that first graders already know how to shun another kid at school, but they’re learning it earlier I guess.

So some girls at school have been really confusing the heck out of my little innocent. One day it’s [...]

Well, it happened. Yesterday at school AJ heard a teacher say that students are not allowed to say Jesus at school.

We were talking about her day on the way to dance class when she recounted this story about a boy in her class (names changed):

Mom, Billy got in trouble at school today. He [...]

Another lesson from the kids about obedience, and a little about ADD.

When I was a kid, I noticed that it was important to my Dad that I color inside the lines. I didn’t remember it though until what I call his “second fleet” came along when he married and had kids with another woman after [...]

AJ broke down yesterday after school, wailing, bawling, and even a couple of loud screams after I sent her to the basement to get it out of her system. What happened? School happened. They did this to my daughter.

Brainwashing (harsh, but it looks like a duck and walks like one)

You see, the school is looking [...]

Long ago in the land of Body there lived a band of foes. At the gates of the city of Tongue stood the source of Body’s woes.

You see, this band of buds was hard, the thing they did was wrong. For when they took their place as guards they only knew the same old song.

The Taste Buds were a raucous band who [...]

I wasn’t planning a post again for a little while, but this is too good.

According to Joanna at Simple Blueprint,

This clip was submitted by a 20 year old in a contest titled “U@50″ by the AARP. When they showed it everyone in the room was awe-struck and brooke out in applause. It is [...]

Just signing on to the blog today to say yellow. I mean hello, but shoot, I typed ‘yellow’ so what the heck, let’s run with it. Yellow, world. How’s your Christmas shaping up? Mine is beautiful, and very sad too, but ultimately glorious.

We don’t do a big hurrah for Christmas, just family and fun. I [...]