Joe and Julia, back when she was lil bitty Tonight Heidi and Joe came for supper, bringing pizza and chocolate chip cooky mix. Jay was gone driving a van full of kids to a winter retreat, so it was really thoughtful of them to come keep me company, to care about my trashed back. (Much […]
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Okay, this is the guy I was supposed to spend my day with today. Tuesday night I admitted defeat and called his parents. My back is not going to be well enough by Thursday to watch him. I can’t bend or twist in the least without triggering vicious stabs of pain and electric feeling twinges
Usually it’s the bottom teeth first, and those are loose, but this was a surprise. She was so excited she called my parents and then my sister’s house, and spoke to each member of the family there, one by one. (They indulged her. They’re nice like that.) Now if only that lame-ass tooth fairy would
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A strange thing happened last week. As I was going out the front door, I slipped. Snow was melting on the roof over the second floor, dripping down and re-freezing again on the cold stone below. My feet flew out and I landed on my poor back, one stair cracked across the middle of the
The wisdom teeth went well. He’s feeling fine, eating ice cream, texting away. Here’s a new dumb story for a new dumb day: Today I was cooking some chicken breasts, boiling them on the stove. After a while, the water boiled away and I didn’t notice. The smoke detector went off, but I didn’t know
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Tomorrow is the extraction of Little Jay’s wisdom teeth. He’s brave, seems fairly unconcerned. The surgeon is good, and it’ll probably go quite well. But still. He had Invisalign to pull his teeth straight and close the gaps. Crowded teeth don’t worry me that much in kids, especially boys. Their gigantic adult teeth grow into
Lydia is continuing to plan the service for her deceased caterpillars, Tickles and Joey. She’s planning this for 3:30 on the 19th of April, and has sent written and decorated invitations to the family, including her grown brothers and sisters and her grandparents. She’s been practicing Greensleeves on the keyboard, you know, which is good
Below is something I wrote a long time ago for the site Life Without School. The question was what the crucial elements of homeschool might be….obviously everybody’s list would be different, but it was fun to think about. http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/ You know… as some of my children have reached adulthood, they are well-educated and civilized, and
I love this picture…Dan’s skinny fingers, his child’s hand on his neck… I love this one of him too. I know it’s bad, but we were all thirteen once, I guess. That piece of paper pinned to the curtain on the door says, “Even a kid can be courteous.” It’s a line from Pee Wee’s
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