From Trike to Two Wheeler

My New iPhone

A few weeks ago I received an email from my husband during his morning commute with a link to YouTube video taken last summer of my daughter telling a knock-knock joke. A few daysÂ later I got another blank email with a picture of Tinker Bell attached. My suspicions were confirmed when I opened email with a voice file attachment last week and heard Laurel telling me in a whispered voice that Da…

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Worth the Trip

If you are ever in an airport with your children and want to have some fun, find a gate where a very long flight is departing and pretend like your family is going to be getting on the plane. It's even better if you can find an overnight flight that is heading over an ocean.

Posted 5 days ago.

Cakes and Costumes

Each fall I begin to feel like an inadequate mom. Before I had kids, I was positive that I would be a mom who sewed homemade costumes for her kids each Halloween and decorated beautiful birthday cakes for their parties. But as much as I try, those are just two things that I will never successfully be able to do. With my daughter's birthday and Halloween four days apart, I am served with a double w…

Posted 1 week ago.

The Gregory Family State Fair To-Do List

When I first moved to Raleigh from Florida, my now-husband was very excited to play tour guide for my first visit to the NC State Fair. In the weeks before the fair, I listened to him describe the fair and his yearly trek through the fried food booths and remember being a bit perplexed about why the fair was such an important event. Eleven state fairs and a few fried Snickers bars later, the fair …

Posted 2 weeks ago.

Letterboxing

Last summer when I was looking for fun things to do with the kids over break, I found an article about letterboxing. After doing a little research, I printed off clues from www.letterboxing.org to a letterbox near our house, found a loose-leaf notebook to use as a logbook and bought a dachshund stamp for our family stamp. We then spent the afternoon at a park near our house searching for letterbox…

Posted 3 weeks ago.

The Invitation

When we walked into Jumping Beans in Wake Forest last week, I sat down at a table while my kids hurried into the inflatable bounce houses. I was looking forward to using the Wi-Fi to catch up on some writing while my kids burned off some of their endless amounts of energy.

Posted 1 mon. ago.

The Trees That Daddy Planted

As we drove into Raleigh from Wake Forest last week, I noticed my daughter looking at the construction site where Cheviot Hills Golf Course used to be and knew what was coming next. I tried to distract her by talking about one of her friends at school. I asked if she wanted a snack. I even resorted to pointing out a VW Bug heading the other direction, but she was deep in thought.

Posted 1 mon. ago.

Punch Buggy

I recently told my kids about the game "Punch Buggy", where you lightly punch someone's arm and yell "Bug" each time you see a Volkswagen Bug on the road.

Posted 1 mon. ago.

Saying Yes to the Sprinkler

Last week, the kids and I headed to the new E. Carroll Joyner Park located in Northern Wake County to enjoy the early fall weather. We explored the trails, swung on the bench swings and peeked in the historic cabins. Laurel and Trevor were so delighted with the many fun things to do that they didn't even notice that there wasn't a playground and I was impressed with the clean restrooms.

Posted 1 mon. ago.

September 11th 2001

For several months now, I have been planning on writing this week about how my almost eight- year-old learned about the 9/11 attacks this year. Since I was 34 weeks pregnant when the Twin Towers fell, I had been thinking about having this conversation with her since before she was even born. But every time I sat down to write about it, I kept thinking about a conversation I had a few days after Se…

Posted 2 mon. ago.

about this blog

From Trike to Two Wheeler

Jennifer Gregory left Florida almost 11 years ago to escape the heat and enjoys living in a place where the seasons change. She lives in Youngsville, N.C., which she usually refers to as north of Wake Forest, and has been married to her husband for almost 10 years. As the mom of two kids and three dogs, her house is filled with lots of joyful noise and barking. Her daughter (7) is convinced that she will be a princess when she grows up and her son (5) has aspirations of being the next Dale Jr. After years of writing software documentation for various companies, she "retired" when her daughter was born to become a stay at home mom. Now that her kids are in school, she has finally figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. She spends her mornings as a freelance writer and her afternoons hanging out with her kids. The only things she misses about living in Florida are her friends and family, Publix fried chicken and going to Florida Gator football games.