Ahhh. Soccer season. Fall weather (um… not in So Cal), cheering on your kids, enjoying the company of other parents (usually….) Unless you are Grant’s mom. If you are Grant’s mom, for every photo of him in the pack’o’players running after the ball…. (he’s #4) ….there is one like this. …or this…. (Who knew a […]
Well, I did suggest that you hurry up….
Scene 1: Getting ready for school… Mom: “Grant, get out of bed.” “Grant, eat your toast.” “Grant, please put down the Legos.” “Grant, please hurry or you won’t have time to play on the playground before school.” Scene 2: Walking Grant to school…. Mom: “Grant, you better hurry up or you won’t have time to […]
Spiderous Kindergartenous
Scene: Walking Grant to school this morning. I notice a huge spider. Mom: “Hey Grant! Look at that big spider up there in that web!” Grant: “Wow! He is big and is poisonous.” Mom: “No, he’s not poisonous. He’s a nice spider… just a big ole’ Garden Spider.” Grant: (after thinking a moment)…. “What’s he […]
The heart wants what the heart wants…
Scene: Our kitchen at lunch time. I have just offered Grant a sandwich…. Grant: “My heart is telling me to have ice cream.” Me: “After you have a sandwich, you may have a little ice cream.” Grant: “If I don’t have it, my heart will stop talking to me.” How do you respond to that?
Choking? You probably deserve it.
Scene: Sitting at the table a few weeks ago. Mitch begins coughing and choking. We Parents: “Mitch! Are you OK?!” Mitch: “Yes. I’m OK, I just swallowed wrong.” Grant (with a definite air of superiority): “pfft. Well, I swallow right.”
Surely, you can’t be serious. I am… And don’t call me Shirley.
Back to school week has been a busy one for everyone. Did anyone else run into ridiculousness while preparing for it? Let me share the good, the bad, and the cataclysmically stupid.. The Good: **I am uber-organized. School clothes and school supplies were purchased on sale and over the course of the summer. In fact, […]
Coming soon: The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid.
The boys are back in school. Grant is doing fine so far (Kindergarten is such a big deal) but I am shaking my head at my 7th and 11th graders. A post on that is coming soon. I’ll get that up as soon as I’m finished driving all over town to return PE shoes that […]
So this ghost goes to a waterpark….
Grant is my source for some good material. Sometimes I need my camera. Sometimes I have it, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I have him repeat what he said if I missed filming it the first time. Setting: Last night, finishing up dinner. Grant is talking about something we don’t understand. He says he wants to […]
She’s just not that into you.
Last Thursday was Devin’s birthday, and on Friday morning he went to Knott’s Berry Farm with 3 of his friends… 2 boys and 1 girl. Maddie, he assured me, was a friend. Just a friend. Not a girlfriend. I dropped the kids off at 10:00 a.m. and the plan was to pick them up close […]
So next year he’s legally an adult…?
Today my baby is 17. How the heck did that happen?! One of our traditions is that the birthday person gets to set the menu for dinner. Today Devin has requested Cowboy Tacos and fresh pineapple. I love an easy, tasty request. (Last year he wanted Sloppy Joes… ground beef and Manwich sauce. ick. I […]
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