Jennifer Briggs

Sarah did a lot of floating by herself in her swim lesson! She is now officially a Minnow! Amy has been a minnow for a while but they were letting her stay in Sarah’s Starfish class time because that was so much easier for us. Now we have to move to a different time slot… Read more »

While talking to my mom I realized that there are many areas of life that used to be challenging that are now easy. School mornings, getting out of the house to get Amy from school, and bedtime. I don’t even remember when some of these things were hard except that I know a year ago… Read more »

I’ve had some moments, mostly Friday afternoon and evening, where I felt embarrassed and disappointed about my parenting. I yell. I grump. I speak with judgement, disappointment, disdain, and impatience in my voice. I wish I didn’t. I’m not proud of that part of me. I resolve many times that I won’t do any of… Read more »

When I got home from my trip (which was wonderful), I soaked up love and welcome. Sarah was clearly pleased to see me when I met her bus and Amy leapt into my arms while telling me how much she missed me and loved me. I’ve been really focusing more on noticing the love in… Read more »

Lately Sarah likes to bring our stroller to Amy’s school pick-up. Either Sarah pushes an empty stroller or I push her in it while she reads. I love that. I love how much she loves books. Every morning I give her a book to read on her bus. Most of the kids have ipads but… Read more »

Sarah started asking to sit next to S, an older kid on her bus. Wednesday morning it was arranged so S was next to Sarah! They are now next to each other for every ride. One afternoon while eating yogurt, Sarah started singing “why did the kids put yogurt on Olivia?” Instead of “why did… Read more »

Amy lost her first two teeth! Miraculously, the tooth fairy even found us when we were in a hotel. For Amy’s first tooth she wrote herself a note to remember to put it under her pillow (Put [picture of tooth] undr pilo). We attended a family wedding this past weekend, thus the slightly delayed sending… Read more »

Note to self: if the girls are allowed to play in the car I need to start checking it every time they are done to make sure no inside lights are on or else the car battery might die. For instance. Last weekend we had a marvelous time camping. As we were assembling our enormous… Read more »

Sarah started second grade on Monday! The most exciting part of this was that her bus (van) is new and has a new driver who is timely and friendly! Both girls are loving school. Amy has some neighborhood friends that attend her school and they run there together in the morning and run back home… Read more »

I’ve been grumpy a lot lately when it comes to my kids. Grumpy about the mess they make, about their whining and complaining, about their screaming (mostly Sarah’s), about their fighting with each other. I feel like I am just a grumbly grumpy mean parent with occasional blips of niceness. This probably isn’t being fair… Read more »