Posted in Giveaways!, Miscellaneous on Sep 22nd, 2009
Just in case you haven’t increased your chances of winning the LeapFrog Tag Reading System bundle that I and 9 other bloggers are giving away by visiting their blogs, here’s a brief rundown of why I think these blogs are great, beginning today with the three whose contests are ending the soonest.
Confessions of a Mean [...]
Posted in Giveaways!, Guest Bloggers on Jul 2nd, 2009
The following is by today’s guest blogger, Linda Vujnov, author of Spilt Milk
No Sharing!
My mother is the queen of sharing. When dining together, if your meal does not appear as appetizing as hers, she will not only offer you tastes, but will trade entrees on request, unless you happened to order fish. She doesn’t eat [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 9th, 2009
I used to get so annoyed with my mom when I was a kid for treating my youngest sister like her baby long after she was one. Mom was always fawning over her, calling her cutesie names I’d never heard her toss in my direction and letting her get away with much more than my [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 11th, 2008
Logan stayed home from school today, complaining that his “tummy hurt.” He claimed to have thrown up four times in his bed when I woke him up this morning, and even though I didn’t see much evidence, I kept him home.
Thank goodness I did because shortly after the other kids left, he threw up all [...]
Posted in Reflections on Nov 21st, 2008
Once upon a time, our TV only received three channels, the most watched of which was the blissfully commercial-free PBS. Since I don’t watch much TV myself, not having 100 different channels to pick from was just fine with me. Even better, my daughters had no clue who SpongeBob or other non-PBS-related characters were, and [...]
Posted in Lessons on Nov 19th, 2008
Yesterday I sort of shot myself in the foot.
We were at the store and Logan had $1 to spend. He found a purple plastic recorder for 88¢.
I encouraged him to get it because he’s always using his sisters’ recorders, which makes them very angry. They don’t want his germy little mouth anywhere near their stuff. [...]
Posted in Reflections on Sep 4th, 2008
My daughters have been reading for about five years now, long enough for me to have written them quite a few notes and emails.
Even so, signing off on the aforementioned missives still feels about as strange to me as it would be to look in the mirror and see the face of an old woman rather than [...]
