Some may ask why there are always more photos of my younger daughter in my gallery. Some even hint that maybe I LOVE one more than the other, or that I play favoritism.
I don’t play favoritism. I charge for it. I take cash only, as you just can’t trust the credit of kids these [...]
Kelsey is reading everything in sight. She curled up the other night on the couch with The Cat in the Hat, and read the entire book by herself.
Today, a snow day, she has gone through all her school reading skill level books (level 6, for those familiar with such things), and is looking to delve [...]
I noticed something the last week or so, something that snuck up on me.
I’m sleeping at night.
I think my sleeping issues began a few weeks after Kelsey started school at the public school, when I started feeling unsure and unsafe. I’ve been waking up at 4 every morning. I wake up in a panic, go [...]
How do you know when the school you’re sending your child to isn’t a good place for her?
When she asks you if she can go to another school.
When the school and/or teacher has acted in such a way that you fear for her safety — physical or emotional or both.
When, 2 days into beginning a [...]
I truly love that my kids are weirdos. Having weirdo kids is very validating. And entertaining. Sure, it validates all my anti-establishment ideas, my standing just left of normalcy. But it’s not the reason I HAD kids, mind you. They are truly products of love, very much wanted and planned for, and if they decide [...]
Guidelines to remember:
Feign disinterest. Seem easy going. If you ACT obsessive and panicky, all will be hell. When someone flips the off switch on the air jumper you rented in the backyard, don’t envision 9 little bodies suffocating inside the walls as it crashes to the ground. Calmly delegate the job of turning the blower [...]
Harkening back to this post, back when I questioned the sanity of buying ANYTHING for my children for Christmas, as bringing in a tub of sticks and sand may extract the same amount of happiness from them, I present you with this, as proof.
Santa found packages of geckos at Wal-Mart for 88 cents each. [...]
Kelsey, on the computer, choosing which game to play on pbs.org: “Mommy, I’m not crazy about Caillou. I think he makes bad choices.”
It’s been one of those shows I’ve tried to keep my kids from viewing because it has a high mommy-pulling-her-hair-out potential. Same with the insidious purple beast that I shan’t name here. I [...]
Lost
On Monday, we lost Alex.
Any of you who know Laurel know exactly who Alex is and how traumatic these last five days have been her, but for the benefit of those of you who don’t:
Alex is the Beanie Baby lion Laurel has carried with her everywhere for more than a year — and a year’s [...]
For the last 3 days or so, I’ve been reminding Kelsey that her puppies cannot attend preschool along with her. That her beloved friends will stay with me in the truck when she goes in to school. She’s battled me on this, using reason, and begging, and every inch of wiggle room a preschooler can [...]
