Back to school shopping… We’re at Marshall’s, checking out the shoes. As the boys are trying on shoes, I notice a rack of really cute bags that are marked with clearance stickers. After looking all of them over I have two, one in each hand, that I am considering. Grant comes over and puts in […]
My kids keep outsmarting me & getting around my rules…
Kids? Unless you are on fire or are bleeding, please don’t try to talk to me while I’m on the phone. It isn’t just that you’re interrupting, and that it’s impolite… it’s also because my frazzled brain can’t process more than one conversation at a time any more. (And just because you lead with “Excuse me […]
If my son was my employee, I would fire him.
I thought this problem didn’t exist anymore. We have answering machines, voice mail, texting, skype-ing, instant messaging, email, etc… I thought the days of bone-head kids screwing up my messages were over. I was wrong. I found this note on the kitchen counter when I came home from a meeting last night. Devin (my 19 […]
Eavesdropping on conversations in the back seat….
Last week was VBS at our church. Grant was going, as was the little girl a few doors down. Her mom and I worked out a carpool agreement. She dropped the kids off and I picked them up at the end of the day. Charlotte is this beautiful, petite little thing with a feisty attitude. (Love her.) […]
Conversations about cake…
At our house, if there are cakes or cookies around, this conversation is repeated constantly: Kid: “Mom, can I have some cake (cookie, doughnut, ice cream, pudding….)?” Me: “Have something nutritious first.” This is my general policy on sweets, has been for a while, yet they ask over and over. This morning Conner came in […]
Feeling a little RED today.
Yesterday we had a nice, lazy Saturday morning. After lounging in our jammies a while, I asked Grant to get dressed. As he went to change clothes I called after him: “And Grant!?? Please make sure you put on something that matches, OK…?” He came back wearing this: “What?! It’s all red…” Yes, a red […]
Can you get me an introduction….?
The other night Grant comes into the living room and plops onto the couch. He looks over at me and says, “I want to meet Jesus.” This throws me. In the matter of about 2 seconds, the following questions flash through my head: Is 9:00 on a school night the time to have a conversation about […]
A matter of taste.
Grant asked for a quesadilla for lunch. I made him one and added a little side of tortilla chips. Grant: “These chips are too spicy.” Me: “The chips…? The chips are too spicy..?!” Grant: “Yes.” Me: “Not the quesadilla… but the chips are too spicy..?” Grant: “Yes.” Me: “You’re weird.” Grant: (slightly confused) “I thought […]
Table manners. It’s what’s for breakfast.
It’s a school morning. I have a cup of coffee and am sitting in the living room, making fun of Meredith Viera’s LACK of interviewing prowess. From the living room I can see into our dining room… You know those heavy earth moving/construction vehicles that have a claw and can grab big scoops of earth […]
Dog years vs. Little Boy years.
I forget why, but the word equal came up in conversation at dinner the other night. Not equal as in 2+2 = 4, but equal as in a peer; the same as; comparable to… Grant did not understand why the 2+2 = 4 version was being used in a conversation about people. We (“we” being […]
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