https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/My kids constantly amaze me with their grown-up behaviors ... perhaps we could all take a lesson!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/686864http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/727610 Devyn Marcelle is a singer... she will be debuting in her first musical theatre performance of The Jungle Book next month... she has a solo part in the "Bare Necessities" song... and I am so proud of her! I'd like to get her young resume...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/648052These days, my kids are teaching me to pay more attention to them... their psychological needs, especially. My 6-year-old daughter, Devyn, was put in an in-school suspension for the last halfof the school day because she pushed another little girl down and caused her to scrape her knee. What I...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/643176What IS this??? My daughter came home singing, "Great, green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, chopped up birdy feet, mutilated monkey meat... french-fried eyeballs, swimming in a pool of blood... I forgot my straawwww... How sweet it iiiiiiis." She learned this in school... from her music...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/637375My 6-year-old little girl, Devyn, plays this video game on the computer (I think it's part of littlestpetshop.com). She is the frog and she has to eat all the mosquitos. She is really good at it! Devyn creates her own words... she is so creative. I love it! She yells at me from across the room,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/636296My good friend sent me this method of explaining where babies come from... A little boy goes to his father and asks, "Daddy, how was I born?" The father answers, "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/635965No, this is not a political or legal piece. It is indeed, a piece relating to my 8-year-old son's first experience (that he can remember) with a temporary intestinal problem that has been referred to as dense poop. (I ask myself why I have been writing about poop so much these days... THAT is...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/635736My good friend of 35 years just gave birth to a brand new baby boy! Ian is his name and he is already teaching my friend that she needs to lose that extra weight she gained while pregnant. He may only be a mere babe, but with as much as he eats, poops, eats, poops, and eats and poops some more,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/553777My family is looking to move to Colorado from Maryland this summer. We recently returned from a house-hunting trip in Colorado and found the home of our dreams. Since my kids will miss their friends in Maryland, I enrolled them in the camps of their dreams this summer... the same camps that their...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/551426My family has been visiting one of my oldest and dearest friends for the past week. My friend gave birth to a little girl, named Cassidy, 19 months ago. Of course, my kids, Justin and Devyn, are older... ages 6 and 4, respectively. Justin behaves wonderfully with the baby/toddler. Devyn, on the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/DivineM8861/530511To her mother's chagrin, a 5-year-old girl in my son Justin's Kindergarten class would always refer to God as a man. The mother asked her daughter why she thought God was a man. Her daughter's answer? Because if God was a woman, the sky would be pink! Chuckle, chuckle...