what vacation?
Am I the only one whose summer schedule is already nearly full with children’s camps and activities? I’m going to spend so much of my summer playing taxi that school in the fall will be a relief.
Category: parenting
the plague
You know you’re a parent when you calmly hold a toddler as chunks of cantaloupe forcefully shoot out of his mouth and into what was your nice warm bath just a few moments earlier. After 24 hours of no symptom other than the angry stomach, I hoped it was just a baby bug. Evan is […]
homework is bad for parents
I spent my weekend proofing and re-proofing a paper on the world’s most boring topic Germany’s invasion of Crete. Do you know what an Aspie’s term paper looks like? “Number, date, number, city, number, fact, number.” Doug spent his weekend helping create a diorama of Germany’s invasion of Crete. “That’s not the right kind of […]
balloons
I have a love/hate relationship with balloons. I love the way they look, floating and waving happily. I love the effect they have on children. They are festive, fun and relatively inexpensive. I’ve been to parties where the obscenely indulgent quantity of balloons created an other-worldly atmosphere of joy. Inevitably, a child will allow one […]
I’ve turned into Sally Forth
The house was quiet, so I went searching for Evan. I found him sitting in a pile of Easter candy wrappers in Noah’s room. When he realized he was caught, he jumped up, grabbed a fist full of candies and ran to hide elsewhere. I started cleaning up the mess. There in the pile of […]
newspapers
The older children spend one night a week with their grandparents. Not all on the same night though. That would be overwhelming to the grandparents and reduce the special time the children spend being indulged and pampered. It’s something the children look forward to and I know they are spoiled in the best possible way […]
family updates
Evan spent the morning wearing a Minnie Mouse dress and chasing the dog with a light saber. Amy came home from school bossy and crabby channeling Lucy Van Pelt. Doug spent the first half of the day out of the house (with our only car) and now he is frantically pounding on his keyboard in […]
pencil mysteries
How can a household with 5 children not have a single pencil sharpener or a pencil that is usable? The younger children get a sharpener every fall. What happens to it? Do they eat it? Trade it for gum? Is this Noah’s conspiracy to have an excuse to “whittle” something?
useless information
Orange slices in the disposal? Good Orange slices in the washing machine? Bad Orange slices on the porch? Acceptable Orange slices under the dresser? Unacceptable
overheard at the store last night
“My mother is being completely unreasonable. She said that I had to find my own money to pay for the tattoo I want. So, I’m gonna use her credit card to…hang on…Hello? Oh? Okay, that sounds great. Alright. I will. Buh-bye. (turns back to friend) My mother didn’t get all my laundry finished over the […]