Free Range on Fairview

Here's the article I wrote for my monthly MOPS newsletter. If you are interested in reading the whole newsletter it and many other things can be found at the Ellensburg MOPS website.  "I have three boys. Three chances for perfect little carbon copies I can shape and mold any way I like. Except each child is unique and there is nothing I can do about it! I have one child who saw all of his school pictures lines up from the last few years and said, “Oh it’s so cute, I almost want to cry!” I have one child that can sit and stare at a tv screen for hours (if I were to actually allow that sort of thing, right?) with his tongue hanging out but can’t stop running around long enough to color in a picture. I also have another child who loves carrying around different tools of sorts, a wooden spoon, a Swiffer or this week, screwdrivers, wherever he goes. Each of my boys live in the same house, they even sleep in the same room, they eat the same food, they all s...

I think there was a crack in the system. Ok I needed something to blame for my lack of posts in oh what, two months or more. Maybe it was getting up at 4:45am or around there to go into the gym to work out for three months. Maybe it was the fact that I became a football mom and have three rowdy boys and it feels like everyday is starting to revolve around balls (yes, I mean every kind). Maybe it was finally getting on depression medication and trying to figure out our new normal. Maybe it was a wacky summer and I just needed time to breath. Maybe. But I'd like to officially blame Pinterest. In case you don't know it is a website where people share pictures linked to websites of inspiration for all aspects of life and you can "pin" the images to your virtual boards to get back to later. It is an awesome place to find recipes, decorating ideas and crafts etc. I put off ever going on there even when friends would rave about how much they loved it because I knew it...