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March 3, 2003
Memories are heartbeats
Sounding through the years
Echoes never fading
Of our smiles and our tears.
Moments that are captured
Sometimes unaware
Pictured in an album
Or a lock of hair.
Images that linger
Deep within the mind
Bit of verse we cherished
Once upon a time.
Through the musty hallways
Of the days we knew
Ever comes the vision
Beautiful and true.
Memories are roses
Blooming evermore
Full of fragrant sweetness
Never known before.
Life must have a meaning
Goals for which to strive
Memories are lights that burn
To keep the heart alive.
*Autumns Bloody noses*
Poor Autumn has been stricken with bloody noses the last couple of days and they have terrified her. She gets all shaky and starts to cry when she sees a drop of blood come out of her nose. I think the screaming and carrying on makes the bloody nose worse and last much longer. The first one she got was in the afternoon and I was able to calm her down in about 10 minutes and it was over. I got her some juice, cuddled with her for a while and explained to her why we get bloody noses. I also told her that I got them ALL the time when I was a little girl. She seemed to be happy with my explanations and went on her way to play Barbie’s. Later on that evening, at about 10:30. Joe and I were watching a movie (Bourne Identity-good movie) and we were startled by this petrifying SCREAM! Joe ran up the stairs and grabbed Autumn out of bed and noticed she had a bloody nose. He yelled down to me to get a tissue as he brought her down. At that point I don’t know who was worse off, Autumn or Joe. Joe gets extremely sick when he sees blood and feels as if he is going to pass out. Autumn had gotten blood all over him and herself as she thrashed around and was now screaming even louder. By this time, Joe had plopped Autumn in my lap and was now pacing as if he were about to loose it. I was holding Autumn and trying to comfort her with know success. She was starting to scare me because her nose was just bleeding non-stop and very heavily. She kept thrashing around and fighting with me about keeping a tissue on her nose and rag on her forehead. After about 15 minutes, I had gotten her to settle down but every time she would sit up, her nose would start to bleed really bad. I had tried to have her put her head forward with a rag on her neck, but she would get hysterical every time I attempted this. It had been 30 minutes and I was just about to call the ER when she finally fell asleep and the bleeding eased up. I am sure she was terrified to wake up with blood running all over the place and was still half asleep. I have never heard her carry on like that .
*Painting Kitchen cabinets*
On Friday, I got the decorating bug once again and decided to finally finish up my kitchen cabinets. I was up until the wee hours of the night painting a light cream over the dark hunter green. As I was painting, I decided to take a quick break and dig out some old Cd’s of mine from my teenage years to listen to and pass the time as I painted. Oh my, was I giggling and thinking about the crazy days of my past. Listening to Posion, Bon Jovi, and many many other long hair guy bands was hilarious and I could not believe that I still knew a lot of the words. I was rockin around as I painted my cabinets. I have not listened to anything but Barney, Veggie Tales and Christian radio in several years, I felt so bad. Ha ha It made the time go by fast.
Saturday Morning I woke up and sanded all the cabinets to make them looked aged and distressed. I am really pleased with the outcome and can’t wait to get some new hardware for the doors.
*Different plans for the weekend*
We ended up not doing much of anything this weekend and I am a little disappointed. On Saturday Joe had a study group with some people from a class in school, so I was at home with the kids. I forgot that J.t. had a birthday party to attend until 11:30 and the party was at 12:45. Yikes! I had to get the kids all dressed and presentable then run to the store to get a gift. Luckily, I got a great deal on the gift I purchased and then I had to drive him to the party. He was only 5 minutes late! Wooohoo. Pretty darn good for not even remembering the party, until an hour before hand. I ended getting struck by some flu bug in the midst of taking Jt to this party and went home and laid down for a couple hours. At about 5:00 I felt guilty because we had promised the kids something fun this weekend and backed out on the plans. So, we took a family vote and decided to go to Applebees for dinner. I was pleased with how well the kids behaved and could not believe that they each ate their entire kid meal. Plus the appitizers they chowed down on before the meal. Geez, it is NOT cheap to take a family of 5 out to dinner anymore that’s for sure. $55.00 later we had full tummys and an empty wallet. At least everyone was happy though and that is all that matters. :O) Sunday was much of the same minus the dinner out. Despite my upset stomach I cleaned the house top to bottom and put the finishiing touches on my cabinets. Enough about our boring weekend.
*New Friendships*
One of the wonderful things about doing In home Daycare is developing a bond with the child and their parents. I can’t tell you how important it is to me to have this wonderful opprotunity. I feel that my relationship with *Z*’s mom is growing into a great friendship and I am so pleased with this oustcome. We have talked on the phone several times, and I have noticed she will come earlier to drop *Z* off, so we can chat a bit. I LOVE it and I really love to talk with her. She is due with twins in a few short weeks and they are closing on a new house on the 20th so she has a TON on her plate right now! I am trying to offer as much suppport as I can and have offered to help her pack and even take *Z* over night so they can get some stuff done. *Z* continues to be as cute as ever and I love this kid so much. He is such a little energetic ball of sweetness and I love to watch him interact with my three children. They are all getting so close. :o)
*War hitting close to home*
Well, I offically know two people who have family members that have been called to active duty now. This is starting to scare me and has my wandering and thinking thoughts I would rather not have on my mind. I just keep thinking of the future for my children. I do not want them to have any worries in their sweet, you ng innocent lives right now and I may not be able to pull that over if we go to war *Sigh* That is all I will say about this for now. I just keep praying. That is all I can do.
*THE COOKIE MONSTER*
Grrrrrrrrr We got 5 boxes of Girl scout cookies and I had 4 out of the 5 boxes~! J.t. has turned into a cookies monster and has wiped out my entire stock of the only PMS soother I have. *COOKIES* Every time I would go in the freezer I would see a trail of crumbs and would scratch my head and wonder when the HECK he snuck in there freezer? In the middle of the night, while I was in the bathroom, while I was taking a shower?? All could be possibilities and I may just have to install a video camera in my freezer to catch him in the act.. LOL either that, or get a lock for my freezer…..hmmmmm now that’s an idea.
Well I will sign off for now.
~Tanya B~
There are two ways to live your life,
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though Everything is a miracle
~God Bless~
A Parent's Prayer
O Heavenly Father, make me a better parent.
Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently
to what they have to say and to answer their questions
kindly. Keep me from interrupting or contradicting.
Help me to be as courteous to them as I want them to be to me. Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes or resort to shame or ridicule.
May I never punish them out of anger or spite or to
show my power. Help me, dear Lord, to demonstrate by all
that I say and do that honesty does produce happiness.
Reduce, dear Lord, the meanness in me. And when I am out
of sorts, help me to hold my tongue.
May I be ever mindful that my children are merely
children and that I should not expect them to have the
maturity and judgment of adults. Let me not rob them
of the opportunity to do things for themselves or to make
their own decisions.
Help me to grant them all reasonable requests and give
me the courage to deny them the privileges that I think may
be harmful. Help me to be fair and just and kind, O Lord,
so that I will earn their love and respect and they will want
to imitate me. This is the supreme compliment.
Amen.
~ author unknown ~
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