A nine-year stage of life has ended. As of today, neither of the kids in our household attends the elementary school that is half a mile south of our house. I didn’t realize till later that my walk to and from the “fifth-grade celebration” would be the last time I’d enact that lovely ritual, at [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘family’
February 22, 2008
Probably Edits Bathroom Walls
Both kids show signs of being able to proofread. Reading the pre-movie countdown, daughter said, “‘One minutes till movie.’ What kind of crap grammar is that?”
February 12, 2008
Dueling Siblings
Every stage of life has its theme song(s). A few years ago it was Thomas the Tank Engine. Those cheery little can-do rails from the Island of Sodor ran through everything. Before that it was We Sing and Skinamarink, those whacky, happy Canadians that got us through some very sleep-deprived mornings. [...]
February 3, 2008
Emerging
Our family just finished a full seven days of “no recreational screen use.” We had a lapse and a bribe, but generally accomplished a fairly major reduction in TV watching, videogame playing, and all the social networking and manga consuming that teenage girls do. My son and I played several games of Operation during the [...]
December 27, 2007
Fresh Pot of Primordial Holiday Soup
I got on the stairstepper today and stepped along to the whole Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat recording. I love the rhythm of story, and story set to music is even better. In the past I’ve been to spinning (stationary cycling) classes and to bellydance, and just got some hiphop adbs DVDs, all of [...]
December 17, 2007
Weird Injury Survived
Never underestimate the need for protective eyewear. Son had a breakthrough last night and worked on cutting his own fingernails. (Hallelujah and Amen!) Alas, one of the nails flew off, into his eye, and lodged in a tear duct. We were preparing for a trip to the emergency room when my husband had a burst [...]
