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 Aug 23rd, 2011
Every year, I post a picture of some or all of my kids on the first day of school. This year will be no different. L-R: Rachel, age 13 (8th grade), Cody, age 9 (3rd grade), Logan, age 7 (2nd grade) and Andrea, age 13 (8th grade). The wisps of gray that you see are [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 12th, 2011
Yesterday I talked about my plans for the kids over summer break. One of my ideas is to make up some goals for them to work toward, mainly life skills that they need to know. My main goals for the boys are for them to learn to tie their shoes and ride their bikes without [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2011
Let me preface this post with the acknowledgement that I love my kids dearly. Seriously. I love spending time with them, I love having them around me and they bring me a great deal of joy. However. I’ve gotten used to this whole being-at-home-by-myself routine and I must say, I’m quite productive while the kids [...]
Posted in Humor, Miscellaneous on May 7th, 2011
Yesterday, Logan brought home a paper he did in computer class. It has every month of the year in a different color and different font, all spelled correctly. What he did not spell correctly is his name. His middle name, to be precise. Logan’s middle name is Matthew. Here’s how he spelled it: Mathyou The [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 6th, 2011
My daughters, who will officially be teenagers next month, just got home from a Glow-In-the-Dark Middle School dance. Needless to say, I’m having mini mind fits because they are growing up far too fast, and because their growing up in turn means I’m growing older just as quickly. So, today’s post is an homage to [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 3rd, 2011
You’ve got to love the innate naivete that most kids possess. Here’s a prize example: For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cody, age 8, filled out this “Changing Our World” paper. It says: “I can make the world a better place by … having no killing so I will talk to the president and see [...]
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 Aug 28th, 2010
This week was the kids’ first one back in school. The transition from a rather unscheduled summer to a highly scheduled school year has gone much more seamlessly than I anticipated. For the first time ever, I have mixed feelings about school being in session once again. Typically I hate it because I love having [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 26th, 2010
Sometime before 7:30: Logan, as usual, woke up long before everyone else, despite his very late descent into dreamland. I knew this foreshadowed no good for later. 9:15 a.m.: The kids and I pulled out of the yard and headed to town. 10:00 a.m.: I left a nervous Andie and carefree boys at the Boys [...]
