At 5pm the day before school starts, they post the class lists in the front window of the office. I still remember my days at Happy Valley. The excitement of going by the school to look at the class list to find out your teacher and classmates. I remember seeing…
I wrote this blog back on the first day of school. And then I was caught up in a Kindergarten tornado and got hit in the head… unrelated but true. So I have some catching-up to do on my catching-up. What else is new? Wednesday, August 13, 2014 This is…
My mom tells this story from my childhood about when I was two or three years old. Apparently I would wander the house, lamenting, “It’s LAAAAAH-sted. It’s LAHsted!” In case you aren’t following: I’d lost something. To this day it drives me crazy if I’ve lost something. Bothers me to…
Round four of our weapons series… Two Christmases ago, Jacob and Nathaniel both got bows and arrows for Christmas from Santa. The math is troubling me at this moment, but it does in fact appear that Santa bought Nate his first weapon at the age of almost two, which made Jake…
Continuing with our weapon stories… I think I have enough for an entire series. So, my nephew Devon is two-and-a-half and has essentially never spoken to me in his life. I am not exaggerating. He has barely acknowledged my existence and is pretty certain that to come into physical contact…
Sometimes I start a blog and then I’m not exactly clear where it’s going and I end up shelving it for three weeks… or three years. I just dug-up the following, which it looks like I started back in 2011. I said don’t judge! Spring 2011 (Jacob, age two-and-change): Maybe…
I’m a bit behind on the blogging front, explanation to follow. Don’t judge. So on July 26th, Jakey officially graduated from preschool. That morning I had the honor of taking the kiddos to school and then coming back later to guard seats in the front row and man the iPhone…
A couple of weeks ago James sends me this text: Funniest story from the car today. We were talking about how we have a big car because we have a big family. (Compared to others with just two people that have small cars.) And Jake and Nate started in on…
This is Spike. Spike is a praying mantis. Spike is Jacob’s class pet. Jacob’s classmate Olivia caught him at her house. Spike eats live flies and crickets. Spike is WAY bigger than when this picture was taken. I find myself worrying about where Spike’s next meal will come from.…
Yesterday the worst thing happened. Nate said yellow. And then when I asked him to say it again, just to be sure, he said yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow. OK, maybe not the worst thing that could have happened yesterday, but still… salt in the wound.