I'm feeling Mama Bear protective of my kids just now. Only there's no one to roar at or smack ( Read more... )

Sunday morning and finally all 3 kids are awake on their own and out of bed at the appointed schoolday wake up.
Of course for the past week they've required extra sleep, wake up alarms, requests, begging, bribing and threatening and occasionally a physical assist together out of bed Later Than this ( Read more... )

Day 1: Galen comes home w/o brand new water bottle ( Read more... )

Several years ago I decided that all new school supplies every year was conspicuous consumption. Besides they usually brought so much home each summer. Composition book with 2 pages used? Hello, scissors or if I wanted to save the previous writings I stapled the 10 used pages shut.

I think last year I had to fill in quite a bit. I probably ( Read more... )

Brian home. Too many thing to get done today on first day of summer. Lunch and nap were seriously delayed with not enough exercise.
Special shabbat service tonight with BBQ dinner.
Sat. nothing scheduled. I'd like to go through the school stuff dumped all over the kitchen and foyer and maybe even go through next year's supply list and shove ( Read more... )

Perry's end of school assembly today featured a pie in the face for someone as part of a fund raiser for his classmate with cancer. I won't even get into the juvenileness of hitting someone in the face with a pie or the role modeling when we are spending so much time and energy teaching Perry not to hit. We'll just move right on to the cancer ( Read more... )

Virgil starts school tomorrow. It was supposed to be last week, but the snow canceled it.

I have photos of Galen and I the first day I took him to work with me. I have first day of school photos for Galen and Perry for every year of school. I make sure to get honey straws (sorry I'm not smearing honey on an actual book. I don't get that ( Read more... )

I read an article today about testing kids at the beginning of kindergarten to measure their readiness for kindergarten. The author was appalled by the process. I think he's right. Like Galen I was, I expect Virgil to also not be appropriately prepared for his introduction into modern academics. I spend more time trying to give him a more "old ( Read more... )

Perceptive, the positive side of "easily distracted".

Six kids in swim class. Virgil was the only one who didn't give the parent their full attention before jumping in the water. Why? Because he was too busy watching the other instructor setting up for her class. On the slide, he wouldn't do it and finally conveyed to me that I was asking him ( Read more... )

Perry's field trip is tomorrow. Brian is chaperoning. I expected a small group, ie Perry plus one very obedient child. Nope, Brian's "group" for tomorrow is Perry.

When I mentioned they probably had odd numbers he let me know the other groups are 3-5 kids each. Ouch! Thankfully, he seems to not understand/care about he implications. He also ( Read more... )