Tommy: “Why don’t you ever let Sarah or I drive when you’re in the car?” Me: “Because I am delicately balanced between sanity and insanity. Your father is already insane, so he has nothing to lose. He will teach you to drive.” Tommy: “Oh, that makes sense.”
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 […]
Among the many government aid programs that exist, there is financial assistance for people with disabilities to get vocational training or a college education. I have always known this, because my grandmother earned a college degree with disability funding. The idea is that people with disabilities have skills and knowledge that make them employable and […]
The threat of rain had everyone evacuating the dangerous outdoors last night. I can remember sitting in Neyland Stadium with technicolor storms overhead while the players never left the field. Is the weather more dangerous now? As children, we never missed a chance to play in the rain. Now, my children whine about never getting […]
My youngest children like to kiss on the lips. I don’t know why. From the time they were born, I kissed their foreheads. I kissed their noses. I kissed their cheeks and their toes and their ticklish bellies. As soon as they started kissing back, it was on the lips. I think it’s sweet, but […]
Sarah mocked my pre-sleepover lecture by summarizing it on a chalkboard.
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 […]
It’s no longer the weekend, but I’ll tell one more story in honor of Barry who is enjoying the week at Disney World. Our entire extended family went to Disney in December of 2000. It was a wonderful trip but the memory that hangs with me is about Tommy disappearing for hours in the Animal […]