Friendly Friday 10/29/10 – Happy Halloween!

Halloween Crafts

Today was Kaitlyn's Preschool Halloween Party!  I had to do some serious cropping so I wouldn't show other kids in the pictures :) And now, on to Friendly Friday! Happy Friendly Friday! This is a weekly blog hop that anyone can participate in. It's a great way to find new blogs and get new readers! To host the link list on your blog, click "Get the code here..." at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone. Here's how to participate in Friendly Friday: Join Google Friend Connect and post the widget code on your blog so that others can follow you. Follow the hostesses of Friendly Friday by looking for the Google Friend Connect widget on their blogs and clicking the Follow button. The hostesses are Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal … [Read more...]

I like feeling validated about my choices

Image by Elizabeth/Table4Five via Flickr Up until recently, I had been feeling like I really messed up not sending Kaitlyn to preschool last September.   I kept running across blog posts from other Moms of four year old girls, and their kids were writing their names and coloring pictures of people and houses and flowers, and since Kaitlyn isn't yet doing either of those things, I was feeling like a failure. Even though she wasn't fully potty trained at all last September which was our deciding factor in not sending her to school, and even though she CAN do a whole lot of pretty smart things now (including taking herself to the bathroom, FINALLY), I was doubting myself. But then over the last couple of days, Kaitlyn and I met some little girls who were exactly her size, who she instantly wanted to play with, who she just clicked with. Twice at the library and then again at the Sprint store, I sidled up to the other Moms and after telling them how cute their daughters were, … [Read more...]