Now that all three kids are in school, I have a couple private hours in the morning during Annaliese’s 1/2 day Kindergarten. I just started to take walks around the neighborhood where our kids go to school. I’m already out and dressed, I haven’t started any projects yet, and the homes are cool lookin’. I’m enjoying [...]
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26 Mar
The whole truth or just enough?
JD has developed a passion for battles between good guys and bad guys. This includes light sabers, blasters, nerf guns and hand guns made out of legos. The other night he came out of his room (night 2 in his very own room) and told me he was scared of the noise he just heard. [...]
21 Jan
And now a little dinner theatre
Overhearing Maddie in the next room orchestrating an entire scenario of make believe. She is giving the kids (and the dog) their lines and stage direction.
Actually, it’s completely self serving. Annaliese would not let Maddie read a new book of hers. Annaliese hadn’t had the chance to look through it. Maddie was deeply OFFENDED that [...]
10 Jan
I think he’s got it!
Overheard JD talking to his sisters: “All the girls in my school talk too much in class. All the boys are silent. They only talk when there’s something to say. The girls talk all the time.”
Well son, I think you figured that out years ahead of your time. Congratulations.
7 Dec
Just when you thought…
Our kids are taught a new virtue each month in their Orchard Kids Wahabu class. This month the virtue is generosity. In combination with the grown up church, the kids are also learning about the clean water crises around the world. They talked in small group about what they could do to help whether it [...]
5 Dec
Moms, gifts, and Christmas guilt
I received a Christmas-themed email survey the other day. You know the ones where you copy and paste it onto a new email, type over the sender’s answers and forward along. I love those. Seriously I do. One question is nagging at me tonight. It was “Worst thing about this time of year”. My answer [...]
21 Nov
Random acts of kidness
Annaliese at any given point in the day will say, “I love you mom” completely unrelated to anything else going on.
JD: “I just want to be snuggly with you” Alas, at age almost 6, I fear the end is near for little boy time unless it includes a dinosaur, light saber or laser gun.
Overheard kids [...]
13 Nov
My new favorite innovators
The Imagination Movers!! If you and your kids spend any time watching Playhouse Disney on the Disney Channel, you’ll have heard of the new show about solving problems creatively with four guys called the Imagination Movers. Prior to having their own show, Playhouse Disney would air a video or two from this musical group in between [...]
23 Oct
FIFO
If you’re not familiar with the term FIFO, it stands for First In, First Out. An asset-management and valuation method in which the assets produced or acquired first are sold, used or disposed of first. For example, if you buy the same stock on different days, then sell some of that stock later, the profit/loss is based on the first set of [...]
21 Sep
Am I Just Weird?
JD went to an awesome birthday party today. Fun stuff to do including a traveling reptile show–real reptiles, not a guy in a costume! Relaxed mom throwing the party, boys running around in a pack consuming too much sugar, snacks and pop. Lots of fun.
Now the invitation said “drop off or stay”. Since this is [...]
