Tricia

How do you handle discipline?

Lately discipline has been on my mind a lot lately. When my husband works a lot I sometimes feel like all the discipline is left up to me. So of course I am feeling like the bad guy who is always starting a sentence with “stop, don’t or no”. The hardest part for me is trying to figure out if the punishment fits the crime and the age. When I am babysitting little ones I use the time out...

Tricia

No school

Well I should be used to the weather by now. I have lived in Wisconsin my entire life. So can someone please tell me why I act all surprised when it gets really cold? As I am writing this it is 1:40 am (don’t ask me why I am still up) -2°F. The wind chill is -21°F. By 7am wind chills could reach -40. We are on wind chill alert until Friday. I just can not believe it. It is so cold the city can not...

Tricia

How many is enough?

For Christmas Jazz wanted another hole in her ear. Up by the top of her ear. I decided to let her get it. It was her third hole. She said when she turns 18 she wants her belly button pierced. Thank God she is only 14 because I don’t think her Dad can handle that! But already she wants another piercing in her ear. It got me to thinking how much is enough? What will be on her list next? Maybe her nose...

Tricia

Everytime there is a break from school

Once again my kids’ sleep schedule is all messed up. I really tried to keep them on their normal schedule but with it being the holidays I let them stay up late. I was loving the fact that if the kids stayed up the night before they slept longer the next day. Well that decision came back to bite me in the butt! Kayla ends up being the last child up way too late. You would think I would know better. I...

Tricia

Why can’t I find what I am looking for?

While the kids are on break I decided to go and buy more uniform shirts and pants. Luckily there are no white shirts(way to hard to keep clean) only blue or red. For pants they can have khaki or blue. We caught a really good sale on Kayla’s pants because Walmart had them for $5. We even found TJ some pants for $7. I don’t know how but almost every pair of his pants have holes in them. He plays...