To try and convince me that Tommy really is going away to college, yesterday we attended Freshman Orientation and registered Tommy for classes. The teenagers went one direction and the parents went another. I don’t know what Tommy’s orientation was like, but the parents basically go from one Q&A session to another. Someone from every […]
Grandaddy: “Obama WILL be our next president.” Have you met my father? He is unapologetically as conservative, Republican and Southern Baptist as humanly possible. He also believes every bad thing ever said about Obama. It’s getting weird out there.
After a summer of being a quiet background hum, this week the cicadas cranked up their volume to eleven. That probably means they have doubled their population and are now invading homes, like a bad horror movie. I like to believe that they are just telling us goodbye as they vanish for the winter. I […]
Tommy’s financial aid award letter finally came. His funding is coming from a dozen different sources and it has three errors I need to get corrected, but I think it’s going to work. Of course, the school still doesn’t want to discuss it with me. I told them the three things and they said they […]
On Sarah’s birthday, she went to get her driving permit and ended up with glasses instead. Her friends immediately told her that she looks like a librarian. She did not take this as a compliment. Librarians seriously need to work on their public image. A few days after her birthday, we took Sarah and some […]
I asked for help coming up with a new tagline for my blog and my life, since this year I will have five children in five different schools. The suggestions were great! I have narrowed the list down to my five favorites. Which one best describes life with a child in college, high school, middle […]
The stores have the school supply sections up and ready. Amy has her list and it would be a gross understatement to say that she is eager to go shopping for her first grade supplies. “I really neeeeed that puffy, glitter *insert pop culture icon here* folder/pencil/eraser for school.” After a million school supply lists, […]
because this one was supremely cruddy.