Although lately I seem to post a lot more craft projects than I do stories about Grant, these little anecdotes are some of my very favorite posts. (Grant and his antics are the reason this blog got started in the first place!) As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d share my Top […]
My elves are clumsy.
We’re in full blown Christmas decorating mode around here. Conner was helping me trim the tree when he dropped the ornament he was holding into a box of other ornaments and it broke. (He’s kind of ham-handed, my Conner…) I asked him to be careful and to clean up the glass. I noticed after a […]
The Great Banana Race
Scene: Grant is in the kitchen, having a snack. Random guys, dressed as bananas, doing their part to help Keep Austin Weird. Grant: “Mom, I just timed myself while I was eating my banana. I did it in 1 minute and 59 seconds!” Me: “Um, that’s nice….?” Grant: “Yes! I was trying to do it in […]
The one about bikers, beer and stereotypes. (And Twilight.)
Carlsberg beer made a commercial where they rented a small movie theater. There are 150 seats and they filled 148 of them with tattooed, leather clad, body pierced biker-types. They left 2 seats open, right in the middle of all of those bikers… What would you do? Such an interesting example of human behavior, isn’t […]
Thanksgiving Artwork – Craft Fans & Grant Fans… unite!
I’ve got something for both groups of readers today! I just finished another piece of artwork for Thanksgiving. (I actually used the flip-side of the Raven artwork, so it’s 2 holiday art pieces in 1! I is smaaaaht!) I’m happy with how it turned out. While I was cutting out the contact paper letters**, Mitch […]
My son weighs in on Ricki Lake’s birth plan….
Ricki Lake is famous for several things, but one of her more recent projects was to film the birth of her baby… in a bathtub… in her apartment… with a midwife. I’m not going to provide any social commentary here. (cough, cough, epidural!, cough, cough) To each, her own. Last week, Handsome Hubby and I […]
Favorite Songs: Grant shares his Top 4.
Scene: driving Grant to his football game last night. I am punching through radio stations, looking for a good song. Grant pipes up from the back seat… Grant: “Mom, do you want to know what my favorite song is? Born To Be Wild!” Me: “oooo! Nice one!” Grant: “And also? No Sleep Til Brooklyn.” Me: “The […]
Grant has a discerning palate. Who’d a thought…?
I made a little dessert to take to a friend’s house for Halloween night. It was very, very, very sweet. Too sweet for me, but I figured the boys would eat them. Grant had one. A little while later I offered him another one. Grant: “No thanks.” Me: “Don’t you like it?” Grant: “No, it’s […]
Second Grade Plagiarism
The epic Battle of the Homework takes place on a regular basis at our house. Grant is good at math and he seems to enjoy the subject, so the math assignments get done quickly and easily. He is also good at reading and language arts, but he does NOT enjoy those subjects, so those assignments […]
We should let my 2nd grader take a crack at the economy…
Grant had homework that included reading a short story and answering questions about it. The story was about a park ranger named Ranger Dockett and all he does as a part of his job. The question Grant was supposed to answer: What would happen if Ranger Docket stopped doing his job? What I think the […]
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