First Post!

I've unsuccessfully attempted two times to start blogging, so I'm hoping that the third time's the charm! To my credit, I did keep a blog for the 8 months I was pregnant with my third kiddo, so I know I CAN do this if I just WILL. This blog is mainly for my own personal enjoyment, so it has no real purpose other than being a vehicle by which I can record memories of my children. You know, things you think you'll NEVER forget, but which two weeks later all you can remember is that they said/did something you thought you'd never forget....

A bit about the family to start... For the past 10+ years I have been a SAHM. This past school year I took a part time job as a math tutor at a local college (yes, I'm a math geek! I can't help it - I love numbers). DH and I have three beautiful kiddos Miss Bee(10), Princess(7) and Big Man (5). Big Man will start kindergarten next fall and it has recently occurred to me that my kiddos won't stay kiddos forever. Yes, they'll always be MY BABIES, but reality is that they will some day leave the nest. Thus, this blog. So that one day, too soon, when they enter the teenage years at least I can look back at the cute things they said, the funny stuff they did and remember why I chose to have these kids!

Since today was a pretty typical weekend day in our family's life and nothing noteworthy occurred, I'll make this post brief. Something did happen last weekend, though, that I want to record. Big Man and Princess spent Saturday night with grandparents and on Sunday after church they went to their great-grandfather Pa's house. They played with a cousin and found their way to the creek - not unusual since they seem to have a magnetic attraction to dirt. In the creek they found (f0r the first time? not sure) the small snail-like creatures that live in freshwater streams in the area. As kids we always called them pennywinkles (kinda like periwinkle - don't have a clue where the name originated). Anyway, Big Man misunderstood the name and started calling them teeny winkles. They are very small and he is currently fascinated with all things small, so the name at least makes sense. As much sense, anyway, as penny winkle! I love observing how my kids (and all kids) try to make sense of their world, and when something doesn't quite fit, they alter it to fit in with their sense of order.