What is this blog about? This blog is about the parenting journey. Having twins and keeping them at home for school hasn’t always been easy (but I do love it).

I had such a hard time finding other moms who say that this job is hard that I thought I’d start saying it. This blog is a place to explore parenting and offer encouragement through good times and support through tough ones. If we can have some laughs along the way together, even better.

If there was only one thing to tell you about me, it would be this: I don’t know it all. I’m here to share what I’m learning as I go and to learn from anyone who wants to stop by and offer wisdom.

So who is AmyL? I’m a 38 year old mother of 4 boys. The older boys are 10 and the younger ones are 5. I’ve been married to the best man on the planet for 13 years. I got my Bachelor’s in Education in 1990 and taught for several years mainly at the middle school level. My favorite position was in the self-contained EI program at the middle school. Both the kids and the staff are crazy at that level.

In 1997 I got my Master’s in Educational Psychology/Instructional Design and Technology. Six months later the boys came along. I’ve been a stay-at-home mom since then. For the last 7 years, I’ve been the church treasurer. I also sing in the church praise band, which at one point included a short-term prison ministry. Oooh, I also went through a training program to join a network of professional organizers in my state, and I plan to work that into an actual business in a few years. I loooooove to organize! The boys are not at an age where I want to be working a lot yet, so right now it’s something I’m doing one client at a time.

Characters You’ll Hear About on This Blog

AmyL - that’s me. You just read about me a second ago.

Hubby - Sorry girls, but I’ve already taken the most fantastic man on the planet. Oh, I said that already, didn’t I? Lol. Hubby is a computer programmer, mainly into web programming these days. He’s also doing a great job as tech support for this site.

TechnoBoy, The Mercenary, The Manager, and Captain Earthquake - Short bios for my lovely boys are attached to their caricatures at the top of the page.

Cyber Son - age 21. CS lives in Florida, and we actually met online. I mentioned something about how I’m old enough to be his mother <gulp> and he said wistfully that he wished Hubby and I were his parents. So I said half-seriously that we could be his cyber-parents and it stuck. See, CS was born and raised in Hong Kong so he’s far from home. He’s working on his college degree, so I am resident editor on papers when he asks. We chat online everyday, and I sure miss him if we don’t talk. He’s definitely got a permanent place in my heart and I love him like one of my own.

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