SuperTween’s “plan”

SuperTween typed up a plan for the weekend. I have three thoughts on her plan: 1. She has no sense of time. 2. She seriously underestimates 7-y-o boys. 3. Knowing how grumpy she is after a sleep(less)over, two nights in a row of sleep(less)over is never going to happen. – – – – – – […]

Barbershop

“The woman who cut my hair remembered cutting Sawyer’s hair.” Well, of course she did. How many seven-year-old boys sit back to have their hair shampooed, grin from earlobe to earlobe and say, “Ahhhhh” the entire shampoo? It was so loud that the other men getting their hair trimmed were giggling. Grown men giggling at […]

not a contest

“Don’t you think you go a little overboard on the Valentine boxes?” No, I do not. I think that most parents do the best they can in whatever ways they can. Some parents grow all of their children’s food. Some parents travel the globe with their children. Some parents are full-time volunteers at their child’s […]

this IS the good stuff

Dad and Professor Teen went camping yesterday, so the two youngest and I huddled under blankets in our basement bedroom and watched Stardust. SuperTween declared it her new favorite movie. Since the answer to “what was your previous favorite” was The Hobbit, I suspect that whatever she watched most recently is her favorite. I’ll have […]

Amy’s letter to Santa for 2012

Dear, Santa For Christmas I would like a Friends Lego House, a Magna Color Dots 3-D thingamabob, art canvases and paints and lots and lots of DUCKTAPE!!! That is all that I wish for this Christmas. As usual I would like for the rest to be surprises. I would like to ask for my family […]