Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 2nd, 2011
The other day, Logan brought home a journal he made at school. I had to laugh at the cover, where Logan had spelled his middle name, as he does with every word he doesn’t know how to spell, phonetically. No comment on the misspelled last name.(He and I have been over it many times.) As [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 9th, 2011
I don’t mention the kids’ dad, my ex-husband, Glen, very often. Because I don’t talk about him much, I’m using this post to publicly express my gratitude to Glen for all the support he gives me and the kids. He goes WAY above and beyond the call of duty of an ex-husband. Thankfully, we both [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Mar 18th, 2011
Let me preface this post with the following back story: The kids were out shopping with their dad around Thanksgiving time and Logan saw something that caught his attention and held it for months. He came home all excited to tell me about the Bigfoot toy he saw at the store. “It costs $100!” he [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Sep 3rd, 2010
Logan seems to have entered a new phase of destruction. When he was a toddler, it was flushing utensils, toys and other unidentified items down the toilet. When he was 3, he somehow managed, in the space of just minutes, to swipe and lose my engagement and wedding band set (to this day I haven’t [...]
Posted in Parenting methods on Jun 15th, 2009
I’m reading an article about the benefits of helicopter parenting published in the Boston Globe a few months ago. The author, Don Aucoin says, …a quiet reappraisal of helicopter parents is underway. Some researchers have begun to argue that late adolescence and young adulthood are such minefields today – emotional, social, sexual, logistical, psychological – [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 6th, 2008
We had our first snow today, forecasted to turn into a full-fledged blizzard. Logan went outside for a while as the flakes started falling, and when he came back in, I asked him if the snow was coming down hard. “It’s coming down really fast, so it’s like a miracle,” he told me seriously, in the [...]
