Recently we embarked on a bit of a religious education enrichment program at home. There was some volunteering, there was some research, there was. . . not a tremendous amount of follow-up. I should really get back to that sometime soon, I know. But the one unquestionably successful portion of the religious education program was … [Read more…]
J’s transformed overnight. Suddenly her hair is so long. Our family policy with hair, generally speaking, is to ignore it. Once in a while it will look raggedy enough that I’ll suggest a trim, and usually the girls demur, and I drop it. I just don’t care enough for it to hold my attention for … [Read more…]
Last weekend, I finally made it to one of M’s soccer tournaments. In the household division of labor these days, I’ll often head to a gymnastics meet with J while Cute W will go to a soccer tournament with M. This makes sense: Cute W is the hard-core soccer fan, and his better sense of … [Read more…]
Me to 13-year-old M: “Hey, can you please add a sentence to that thank you note for the [gift you just received]?” M: “Oh my gosh, Mom, I was just going to do that!!” Me: “Okay, great. . .” M: “I mean, it’s like you don’t trust me to do anything.” Me: “I just wasn’t … [Read more…]
This recent snowstorm was pretty dang irritating, if you ask me. First of all, if there’s going to be a bunch of snow, I think there should be a snow day. Right? We didn’t lose any school time to snow this year at all, so it’s not like we didn’t have room in the snow-day-budget. … [Read more…]
No doubt you’re wondering. . . did anyone actually show up to the dance party? Well, I’ll tell you, I was pretty panicked about it. Double-booking with the elementary school talent show was a potentially fatal error. It was pretty demoralizing to have a Facebook event in which I’d invited dozens and dozens of people, … [Read more…]
Recently, little J and I traveled to Rochester for a gymnastics meet, and I was reminded, again, of how much I really love visiting there. After the meet we had lunch with a friend from Rochester, and she said that tons of people visit every weekend for competitions: sports, dance, chess, all kinds of stuff. … [Read more…]
