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... )

The Upsherin was very nice. Virgil came bounding inside from playing in the yard announcing, "The Rabbi's here!" It was so nice to see/hear his excitement. He sat very still while we snipped some hair. No ears got clipped, no bleeding. The plate of marzipan helped but he quickly got a bit confused as to why it was all his and offered to share ( Read more... )

I was dreaming it was the first day of a new class for a semester. It was a Thursday evening class worth 1 credit.

The prof. started off by explaining that we would need to attend an additional class either Tuesday night or Sunday morning.
I was squirming in frustration as it was sons dumb class I was taking just to fill some silly graduation ( Read more... )

Three years ago I was 38 weeks pregnant entertaining Perry for an hour sitting in the bleachers after an hour long car ride. Now I get to entertain an even younger child.

This time the bleachers aren't fully pulled out. This means when Virgil was hopping row to row and didn't stop before the bottom row when I called out that he slipped and fell ( Read more... )

G&P got expelled from golf camp today.
Good times. I still need to find time to talk to each one on one and not while driving so they can have my full attention.
I am so sick of camps providing "snacks". I packed grapes, cherries, carrot sticks and a blueberry Lara bar to each child. They ate none of it. They had the camp "snacks" instead - ( 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... )

All 3 boys are in the tub.
I'm calling it: Reenacting The Birth of Virgil - Hollywood Style

They're in the tub just like when he was born
There's noise just like when he was born - but louder
There's genital discomfort - Perry got kicked in the scrotum
And then it morphs into true Hollywood fashion as in Outbreak real life spend an entire day running ( 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... )

So.... we are currently have 2 active cases of measles in the area. I was trying to hold off until after Virgil's next LDA shot.

Galen needs a DTaP for middle school and a physical for sports. Cool I could. Do both after school ends in June, right? Ha, ha, ha....!

As I reflected on things that could be spread through fishing a football out of a ( Read more... )

This isn't going to be a fluffy post. This is nitty gritty in the trenches life.
Brian and I both need more sleep and more time both as a couple and as individuals and there's only so much you can do about that.

This morning he was already late to work when he stopped to put away a bag of pretzels in the corner of the kitchen when I lost it.

From my ( Read more... )