Shaking It Off...

Thank you for all your encouragement. From emails and conversations I've come to understand that nearly every mom has dropped their child and/or had them get locked in the car (although no one mentioned that these events happened on consecutive days). Your stories really helped me. A couple of weeks ago I heard this speaker share about her book, Motherhood, the Guilt That Keeps on Giving on Focus on the Family. The front cover has a mom standing near "Mt. Guiltmore". I would love to get the book but I would feel guilty for taking the time to read it and for spending the money. Seriously, as I head down the parenting path I want to begin now correcting my course when I make mistakes, and then choosing not to beat myself up over it. My energy is better spent on being motivated to do things well the next time rather than perseverating on what has already happened. This is a big learning curve. Thanks to all of you we are dusting ourselves off and moving forward with lessons learned.

Belated sharing of Abbey's St. Patrick's art. It's still March until tomorrow, right? The bottom shamrock is her first marble painting.

Modern Art

Paint with water book. This also involved painting the kitchen table, but I won't show that.

This may be TMI, but our new game is Abbey hitting me on the behind and me singing "boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka" and shaking my booty and then I run around and tap her on the rear. It's pretty fun!