BamamaPancakes

  It seems like it was just January. Yet, here we are, with May lined up right around the corner. Someone once said that raising kids feels like long days and short years, and boy do I get that. Sometimes it feels like parenthood is either one extreme speed or another; there’s not much in between. It still amazes me how fast Adalyn and Bria can scale the island in the pantry to reach the top shelf, yet it takes approximately 47 minutes to put on one sock before school. Since I’ve been home/not teaching at LC this semester, I wanted to make more of an effort to do learning stuff at home with the kids regularly (You know, so they don’t grow up saying words like ‘stuff’ in their blogs). I would love to be one of those moms who comes up with amazing developmentally-appropriate learning games on the spot with an endless fountain of structured-play ideas, Pinterest knowledge, and one of those cleverly-organized, always-stocked craft supply areas, but alas, I am the mom with half a...