It’s going to be total mayhem here in two weeks (or maybe tomorrow or the next five days). As if this house is not already mad enough to be inhabited by two mutant hobbits, who are soon-to-be big brother and big sister to a newborn named JJ.

To be young, two, and free….   This is the current phrase in my mind as I sit outside watching my children get wet with a sprinkler.

I got  back home from the perinatologist and started our number recognition lesson with the twins for the day. I was quite excited to play “teacher” to my twins again as I continue to encourage them to count from 1 to 10. Nursery rhymes are their favorite and if we …

My daughter asks me “Why? all the time. Antoinette take off your shoes? Why?

To the one who, to me, is forever 40…  My man cooks; he also vacuums the floor, washes dishes, changes diapers, and scrubs the floor. 

A book and a mother’s lap make up for a potent pairing in transforming running rascals to reading tots.   At least that’s how Emilie Buchwald puts it when she said: “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” 

It is getting really challenging to discipline a soon-to-be, two-year-old boy with so much energy to throw a tantrum. The most effective strategy so far is to put him in his playpen, walk away, and let him cry it all out. Then, I’ll lay down thinking about how life was …

I thought about what to write at 12:37 a.m. Truly an unholy hour in this home, where the children sleep at 6:30 and the husband at 8:00. And I thought that if a writer can still be awake at this time of the night/day to work on his/her masterpiece, then …