My dad told this story from an afternoon with Tim: He and Tim were walking along and Tim asked him, “Could a bird rule the world?” My dad, being the amiable soul he is, walking along chatting with a child said, “Sure.” Tim, in all seriousness, asked, “How?” Love, Val
Okay, there is mayhem upstairs. Why always with the mayhem? We’ve got your door slamming and a lot of laughing. I can hear dance, dance revolution from somewhere up there, but this ain’t dancing. I have a box with about 12 shoes in it—all singles. Where are the matches for these shoes and bedroom slippers?
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Okay so when I picked Julia up from preschool, the teacher, whom I love, told me: “Ohhh, she’s the best little rester in the world. She falls right to sleep at rest time.” Yah. She’s also as white as paste and prone to whiny crying jags, slept 13 hours last night. The girl is anemic.
Little Jay and his friend Sarah This weekend was our last weekend at the lake, closing up for the season. TC didn’t want to leave. He wept on his mother, sprawled across her and his brother on her lap. I brought him Kleenex and told him I understood. His mom told him she understood too.
This morning I put Julia’s tights on her. She was kicking around on my bed, skinny long feet in the air. I tussled her into them, milking the knit up her legs, and it made me think of a conversation I’d had with my mom. When I was Julia’s age and even older, I wouldn’t
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This morning I followed Jay down the highway in his big plumbing van. He was taking Julia to preschool and I was headed to the office for a meeting. As he reached his exit before mine, we were beside each other for a minute, and he waved, big old paw. I waved back. Then I
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This in response to a mom of an 8 year old who can read very well, but is whiny and “lazy” and uncooperative in homeschool:Just some thoughts… I’ve been at this since 1989, still have kids in homeschool, and have learned a few things the hard way. Okay–lazy is a very negative word. We all
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working on the little weenies ready to go a cute little pumpkin first halloween Halloween was as hyper and giddy as ever. My parents host a costume party, and that was last night, very fun. The kids were way into it. I’m responsible for treat bags, games, crafts. I just use the same box of
Just before everyone came for supper, the washer flooded and we realized the drain line was clogged, had to call the drain cleaner out. But it was quite a sight, hot sudsy water flowing all across the kitchen floor. The kids hollered, “We need a plumber! Call a plumber!” Jay was crawling around on his
