Awww.
on Aug 29, 2009 in Parenting Charlie (4.5) and I were alone tonight way past bedtime waiting for Craig to bring big brothers Ed and Henry home from a movie party. I asked Charlie if he missed his brothers, and he said “Yeah.” Me: “I don’t have any brother...

AYSO is hard core
on Aug 11, 2009 in Parenting This year Craig signed up to coach Ed’s soccer team. Previously he’s been assistant coach, but this year they were short on volunteers. So part of his “training” is doing an online course in safety and procedures and such. And...

Dear Mom: please don’t murder me
on Jul 27, 2009 in Parenting I’m a big believer in letting kids look like what they want to look like. I only pick out their outfits when we’re going someplace fancy, and they get to choose what haircut they want. So when my older two boys wanted REALLY short hair, o...

Awesome day
on Jul 20, 2009 in Parenting My day began running my 4 year old to the bathroom so he could throw up in the tub. Repeat throughout the day. I was just changing into my PJs and heard the 17 year old cat starting to vomit — I made him do it in his water bowl so I wouldn̵...

My fortune
on Jul 16, 2009 in Parenting Sometimes I just like to shut my eyes and fall into the middle of the pile of my boys and get my fill of their love and joy. Follow me on Twitter @ErikaJurney and Facebook.The Plain Jane Mom Blog is Copyright © 2006 - 2009 Erika Fields Jurney.26...

Missing ‘Go Read It Today’?
on Jul 15, 2009 in Parenting I still do it, but now it is all contained in my shared google reader items. You can subscribe to the feed if you like. Or if you’d rather just get it all once a day, you can subscribe in email. Hope that helps :) Follow me on Twitter @ErikaJur...

My memory has just been sold
on Jul 11, 2009 in Parenting Lately I’ve been reading a great book series which I’d like to post about, but I just can’t stomach having to add the ‘this is NOT a sponsored post’ or ‘I bought these with my ...

DVD “extras”? Give me a break.
on May 9, 2009 in Parenting I’ve never ever ever watched a DVD ‘deleted scene’ which was wrongly cut out of the move — why do they include this crap?? Follow me on Twitter @ErikaJurney and Facebook.The Plain Jane Mom Blog is ...

Answer to: Who Stumbled me?
on Apr 24, 2009 in Parenting Ever get some traffic to your site via Stumbleupon and wish you could figure out who to thank? I thought this was common knowledge, but apparently it isn’t, so I’ll share this sweet tip with you. Let’s ...

One hell of a long day
on Apr 23, 2009 in Parenting Got all three boys to the dentist at 7:30 this morning. Everybody got cleanings, Henry got Xrays, and Ed got sealants, they we took them all to school. I went with Craig to his 11:40 appointment ...