My oldest daughter will be 15 in less than 3 weeks. Everyone thinks she is a clone of me in appearance and personality. Everyone except her. I can’t blame her. No teenage girl wants to be told that they look like their middle aged mother. No teenager wants to hear that they act exactly like […]
My brother sent the children a DDR. Sarah waited until the younger children were tucked in bed and I was in the kitchen washing dishes before she hooked it up to try. In a big family, being the first child to use something is huge deal. I think it’s more about gloating than the fun […]
One day last week, Noah’s bus was MIA. It happens every so often and I completely understand that mechanical problems, bad traffic and illness sometimes make the route impossible to complete. Usually, we pile a load of children in the car and drive to the school. When I say pile, I mean our children and […]
Reason #732 why children should be closer than 15 years apart: Two-year-olds don’t care how busy you are getting ready for the 17-year-old’s graduation from high school. Sometimes, they just need you to sit still and snuggle with them.
Since discovering the Zappos phenomenon on Twitter, I now see Zappos everywhere. In an uncharacteristic stroke of good fortune, Weary Parent and Zappos have given me the gift of new shoes. Since I haven’t had a new pair of shoes in a little over FIVE years, I am more than a little tempted to buy […]
Betcha thought I was going to talk about Asperger’s (again) when you saw the word spectrum in the title. No. I am talking about the spectrum of parenting styles that range from helicopter on one end to free range on the opposite end. I have to agree with Katie about the damage that helicopter parents […]
Evan throws a plate on the floor and it shatters into a million pieces. Doug: “He has boy’s energy.” Evan squirts an entire bottle of dish soap on a fabric chair. Doug: “He has boy’s curiosity.” Evan puts his “robots” in his food and then he flings them across the room. Doug: “He’s just all […]
Sarah has had boys buzzing around her for a few years now. In the past year it has gone from something only I notice to something everyone notices. Tommy and Noah’s scout troop has boys ranging in age from 8 to 18. We used to take the whole family and let the non scouts play […]
Mmkay, I have said this before, but I am going to say it again. Please explain to your middle and high school daughters why they should not cross their legs when they are sitting on a stage. Unless they are in training to be paparazzi magnets, you are not doing them a service by ignoring […]
Tomorrow Sarah gets inducted into the National Honor Society. We’re all going to watch, which means we’re going to create a scene. It’s impossible for our crowd not to draw attention. Sarah would prefer if we just dropped her off at the back of the parking lot and picked her up after everyone else has […]