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Family Time at Colonial Williamsburg

It's HOT, so we went to the pool. Just lounging around on the shallow end stairs with my preschooler and sharing diving toys with a few other kids.

We did it!  I have returned from Ecuador after spending more than a week with a group of 10 year old girls and no chicken nuggets, nada!  Somehow, the girls did not wither away and we enjoyed 3 full meals (and many snacks) every day.  The food was awesome and the girls learned alot about Andean cuisine.

What will you be doing for your dad, your father-in-law and your husband on Sunday? I will be giving my husband his choice of which mass we should attend at church, a big breakfast, an appearance at a birthday party for the one-year-old across the street and then a swim at our community pool followed by steaks on the grill.

I'm reading these stories about young people doing amazing things, i.e. the 13 year old who just scaled Everest, and I'm amazed. But I'm also a bit shocked about the 16 year old girl who is sailing around the world BY HERSELF in a 40 foot sailboat who is feared to be lost at sea.

I nearly got squished today. A rather imposing woman and mother of a player on the other team did not appreciate it when I asked her to watch her mouth, and not swear on the sidelines near my four and eight year olds during the last soccer game of our season.

I have developed two unexpected allies in my job of parenting a 9-year-old with high-functioning autism and ADHD: a sixth-grade and an eighth-grade boy.

I keep saying that if my boys want to have long hair when I prefer short, I should let them have their way. As long as their hair is clean, relatively neat and not absurdly long, this is a battle I can afford to lose (tattoos and piercings... now that's another story).

But I can't seem to keep myself from being a haircut tyrant.

I know you know the song, "There were four in the bed, and the little one said, "roll over, roll over" so they all rolled over and one fell out ... right? Well that was definitely us last night, I had all three children in the bed with me thanks to Mother Nature. I welcome my kiddos to my bed when they're scared or sick so that's not the issue.