Sunday was deeply dramatic. Long story short, M’s quit junior choir at church. There was not much explanation or communication ahead of time, so when we tried to force the issue, she ended up attending choir in such an actively miserable state that the choir director, one of her biggest fans, emailed me with a … [Read more…]
We had J’s birthday party. It was small: she’s got a group of 3 other girls with whom she likes to “play pandas” at recess. I don’t really know how you play pandas–I think that they’re pretending to be panda bears? And it’s a pretend game that they all love, and occasionally some other girls … [Read more…]
Tomorrow’s J’s birthday party, and the cake thing wasn’t going so well today. It was supposed to be a triple-layer cake, but after I’d successfully pulled removed one layer from the pan, the second wasn’t going to well. I panicked and left the third one to cool more, and J tried to do it herself. … [Read more…]
This morning I was visiting Mary, and she gave me an early birthday present. One thing that drives her crazy is that I’m always wearing dainty little earrings. She’d like me to branch out. I’m like her project. So over the years she’s been focusing on accessories. And they’ve been growing. Ttoday she prefaced her … [Read more…]
On one of her very first days of school, M reported that she’d watched two different Youtube videos as part of class. Oh, really? So of course I had to know which ones they were and check them out myself. One I knew about already, Nick Vujicic, the “No arms no legs no worries” guy. … [Read more…]
