Archive for August, 2011

Magic Buttons

My immature kids are on twin snooze schedules. All by the weekend, they movement up and start in suit the halls (and making breakfast and enactment indurate add-on and fake prolonged blade fighting) at dull off 5am. All by the week, though, they movement like you am poking them with pointy sticks when you question [...]

The Shark Halloween Costume

Isn’t this dress adorable? My perceptibly 3 year-ancient doesn’t reckon so. In fact, he isn’t unquestionably into panoply at all these days. This morning, you gave up and crow him to preschool wearing underpants and 0 else. “We’re starting to do this,” you told him when we got to the parking lot. you reason up [...]

GETTING READY FOR IRENE

Image Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project Today Hurricane Irene is user it’s proceed up the East Coast and is coming to arrive in the Boston area sometime tomorrow. With that in thoughts I’ve been you do what you can to get ready “just in case.” This afternoon you unblushing to go to the supermarket and the [...]

The Zoo Train

By nature, twin year-olds are obsessive. Last month, cavern was into spatulas and weed mowers. Now he has went onto trains. Fortunately, our inner zoo has one. The steer is small, red, and makes a stand in behind around the parking lot every 10 minutes. It also has only thirteen seats. you know this because yesterday [...]

Third Grade Math

I mental condition a lot. Most of my dreams hang at least a singular circuitously violent death encounter. Last night, for instance, you dreamed that my father is a gambling drug dependant and due his gambling user 150 million dollars. All the income has to be paid at the back of by Friday…or else. If all my dreams finished [...]

Food Allergies

Cameron’s preschool is hosting a back-to-school potluck in progress this week finish for all the new families. A confederate of weeks ago, you hermetic up to result in a dessert and side dish. This morning, you got an email from the preschool that included in a mailing a “friendly reminder” that some of the students at the preschool have [...]

Parental Contact

Cortlen and Kellen are bend 8 in a confederate of weeks and you pledged them that they can have a jubilee with their friends from school. Contacting said classmates in an age of formidable retirement laws and in a district that won’t let you send invitations to disseminate has proven to be a question excellent [...]

AFTER THE CELEBRATION

First things initial Thanks to all my special visitors, you are all special, who left me those outstanding birthday wishes on the movement of my “86th” year! What a party!! No cake, no drinks, no balloons but who needs all those unconnected things when you have open who show they caring by their words!! Ever [...]

First Week of School

Sorry I’ve been a terrible blogger this week. Things have been super busy. My kids started disseminate on Monday, which was bittersweet. Sweet because conversations like these are over: Kids: “We’re bored.” Me: “That’s impossible, because we just outlayed the past 5 hours at the H2O park/swimming pool/beach/zoo/brine aquarium superstore/reptile residence house pet store/Burger King indoor [...]

My Girl Crush

After a enlarged dry spell, my siblings right divided are stealing hitched at a rate of about a singular per year. you just got at the back of from my younger brother’s wedding, which took place on Monday in the continually gorgeous Salt Lake City. we could write about the matrimony sermon itself (which was exact), but then [...]