“Evan needs to go potty. Quick!” Doug scooped up a naked 3-year-old and carried him to the bathroom. CRUNCH “Ow!” “Don’t move!” Doug raced from the bathroom to find me with a Christmas tree light embedded in my heel. Amy and Noah appeared in the broken glass zone to watch the blood drip from my […]
Sarah has been counting down the days until Twilight hit the theaters. When Noah and his friend asked to go see the teen vampire romance, I was a bit surprised. “Umm, are you going to see the girls in the audience?” I started calculating when and where the two 12-y-o’s would go to the movie. […]
I received very kind comments and a couple of extremely insightful e-mails in response to my fretting about Noah. Thank you. I used your thoughts to work out a short term plan as well as a big goal for high school. Your e-mails were overly polite about the fact that after six years of blogging, […]
“Do you have friends at school?” “Not really.” “Are people mean to you?” “No. I’m kind of invisible at school.” Cue meeting with teachers. What the teachers and I agree on is that Noah is incredibly bright. Nearly perfect tcap scores bright. There is no gifted program in middle school, but it wouldn’t matter because […]
Maybe we should tie Amy to her bicycle.
Remember several years ago when Tommy did this to his forehead? This past weekend, Noah went camping with the Boy Scouts. He came home looking like this: He also had a circular hickey on his arm and his abdomen. I stopped looking for the odd marks after that. I don’t want to know if there […]
Noah – “How do people get babies?” Dad – “Well, when people love each other they sometimes decide to make a new life together.” Noah – “No, I mean HOW do they get the baby?” Mom – sensing that Dad is about to answer more than Noah is asking, “When people have sex together it […]