And just like that, it’s Autumn…Yesterday morning as we were getting up and ready for our day at the dark and cold hour of 6 am, B started a small fire in the fireplace to take the edge of cool off the family room. And after the mad dash to get the kids out the door so they wouldn't be tardy for school and I wouldn’t get the automated phone call to let me know my kids were tardy for school, I climbed into the chair closest to the fireplace and turned on a worship service YouTube. The ambiance in the room dramatically shifted from commotion to tranquility. I closed my eyes, and I felt transported to another time and place.

DID YOU HEAR? THE KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL

There were years that the end of summer came with tears and tantrums—I can only account for mine. It used to be I never wanted the summer to end and see my kids go back to school. Not so much this year. Last week, they started the new school year with three half days. It was so cute to watch my teen and tween walk into school today holding hands. All that cuteness aside, it seemed, however, that as soon as we dropped them off at school they needed to be picked up again.

AROUND THE HOUSE, AUTUMN, FAMILY, WINTER, SCHOOL, WRITINGKat GroshongSeptember 3, 2021BACK TO SCHOOL, WRITING, AUTUMN, ALARM CLOCKComment

WE COULD MAKE THAT AT HOME, YA KNOW.

Yesterday after school, the Girl said, “We should get Qdoba for dinner.”
“I was just thinking about Qdoba this morning,” I said.
“Great, let’s get Qdoba.”
“We have other dinner plans tonight, but maybe this weekend we can do homemade Qdoba bowls at home,” I said.
“No, Momma,” she said. “That’s just not the same.”

AUTUMN, FOOD, THE GIRLKat GroshongDecember 3, 2018Comment

TO VACATION OR NOT TO VACATION....IS IT REALLY A QUESTION?

We didn’t get a family vacation this summer. We didn’t get one last summer, either, because we moved, and moving and buying a new house and starting a new job pretty much screams, “You don’t need no stinkin’ vacation.” But I’m not bitter.

AROUND THE HOUSE, AUTUMN, B, FAMILY, MONKEY BOY, THE GIRL, VACATIONSKat GroshongSeptember 24, 2018Comment

GLOVES AND SOCKS AND GLOVES AND SOCKS

Sometime over the holidays, I misplaced my winter gloves and needed something to cover my hands when I went outside in near zero degree temperatures. I didn’t want to run back upstairs—again—to grab a pair of gloves from my top dresser drawer, so I dug through the kids’ bag of gloves in the mudroom. Not a single matching pair among them, so this is what I wore.

AROUND THE HOUSE, CLOTHES, THE GIRL, MONKEY BOY, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, FALLKat GroshongJanuary 6, 2018Comment