Kora has been coming up with some great excuses for delaying bedtime. Climbing the stairs to bed tonight she came to an immediate halt. “Wait, Mommy. There’s a granola bar in my jammies. Down in my foot. It hurts soooo bad.” I fixed that situation by telling her, “Well, I guess we’ll have to put [...]

I’m not sure who decided Kora would be my child. I love her dearly, but I hate pink. Kora loooooves it. Even that is probably an understatement. These days she will rarely wear anything that is not pink sometimes she’ll concede to wear something purple. This all started about a month ago. I’d heard it [...]

The other day after the mail came and after Avery, our dog, made sure the mailman would never return, Kora was so excited to receive a Christmas card in the mail from her Grandma. She opened it immediately and did a great job of not tearing the card even though the envelope was in shreds. [...]

One of the most difficult things about being a parent is trying to take care of toddlers when you are under the weather. Every time I get sick I immediately flash back to my working days where I could simply pick up the phone and get sympathy from a boss on the other end telling [...]

Is it Thanksgiving or Halloween on Thursday? You would never know at my house. Kora has been wearing her Halloween costume nearly every day since the 31st. Granted it’s cute but the poor costume is starting to show major wear and tear with freying ends and holes starting to appear. She was a mermaid. “No, [...]

My daughter has recently started stuttering. She talked very early. In fact, she even had her own language for months before she started speaking real words. So now at just over 2 years old her talking has developed into a stutter. I’ve done a bit of research and it appears to be normal at this [...]

Thought I would start off this blog with a chuckle, not really Cleveland related but funny nonetheless. Yesterday my 3 year-old daughter was reading a book about dinosaurs. She declared “This one is my favorite.” She has a new favorite every day and today it happened to be dinosaurs. Well after she was done fighting [...]