Sweet Life With Mary

No, this is not how about Mary being a little Imelda with lots of shoes or her love of shoes.
Its about how shoes “accidentally” drop off from her feet when she gets in the car.  Every time.  As soon as she is strapped in her car seat, whatever shoes (sandals, crocs, tennis shoes…) she’s wearing? […]

Mary shows off to her “crush” at the playground….
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What do you say to your 5-year-old when she, very seriously, tells you…
“I think, I’m gonna tell G that I love him.”
Here’s what I wanted to say.
“Girls don’t tell boys they love him. Not until you hear them say it first…. What if all he says back […]

Two weeks ago, Mary and I started on her 100th Day school project.
Today was the deadline to bring it in and we just got done yesterday.

Ok, I admit, the idea of having a 3-D project inside a plastic container was mine. Otherwise, this IS Mary’s project.
Here’s why:

Choice of having animals is hers.
Mary did most of […]

I do not know what to do or what to say back.
Every time, and I mean, EVERY TIME, I tell Mary to do something (like, change her clothes, go have breakfast, turn off the light in the bathroom, etc.) or reprimand her for interrupting a phone conversation with Gramma for no reason or admonish her […]

Yesterday, I posted on Mary being “contrary” about our new rule of eating all meals at the kitchen table.  (Thanks *~*Jennifer*~* for that comment.)
Shortly after I posted that entry, Jack and I were watching TV in our bedroom while Mary was in the living room watching a different TV show. (This is usually how it […]

Or so, Mary says.
As part of our family’s intention to lead a healthier lifestyle, I had consciously made a few changes to our family’s eating habits, which began New Year’s Day.
And one of them is that food will only be eaten in the kitchen, at the table, nowhere else in the house.  All meals, including […]

We dropped off Stepd at the airport today.  She’s on her way back to California, where she works right by Beverly Hills.  She moved from Colorado right after college graduation and is finding her own way in the big, wide world out there.
Mary cried all the way from the airport back to our house.
“My heart […]

Day 3 of my New Habits and I would just like to write out an early Progress Report on Habit No. 1— Converse with Mary in Tagalog.
Going just great!
I start the day with speaking Tagalog with her but as the day progresses, once we interact with her Dad and her half-sister and anybody else we […]

Does not go well together.
At least, Mary is learning…
It is Jack’s family tradition to open ONE present Christmas Eve.  I guess, it got started to quell impatience over waiting until Christmas morning to open presents.
What we should have done is let Mary know of this tradition, right on Christmas Eve, when she could not wait […]

And Girl Drives Away With Boy
I watched my daughter drive away with a boy this morning.

Ok, they drove away in the school bus… but it was still an emotional moment— I entrusted MY precious little girl to the care of a BOY!
When Mary started Kindergarten this Fall, I was still working full-time so I […]