What I have been asking Grant each morning: Â Did you make your bed…? What I will be asking Grant each morning from here on out: Â Did you make your bed properly, or did you just pull the comforter up over a big wad of sheets, blankets and stuffed animals….? oy.
Sorry, but I have a “no reptiles” policy in place.
Grant’s class is studying the US Postal system… how to address an envelope… where the stamp goes, etc. Â They are practicing writing letters too. Â I received the following letter in the mail yesterday: (Just in case you can’t read it… here it is word for word.) Dear Mom, Your the BEST mom ever! You also […]
No more sugary drinks… (I don’t care how convenient their location might be.)
When we go camping or on a road trip, I treat it as the special occasion that it is and I buy drinks and snacks that I would not normally buy.  I am not a sugary drink/soda kind of  mom. One of the drinks we had on our last camping trip were these SoBe Orange-Carrot […]
Dude… not cool: When your child sees others bullying.
Bullies are nothing new. Â Because some high profile (and tragic) examples of bullying have been in the news recently, most schools have anti-bullying policies now. Â (Which is nice and all, as long as they don’t take it too far. Â We’ve seen that happen, and that is a story for another day.) In my experience, the […]
Being a “Yes Man” isn’t always a bad thing.
This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links. I know it came out a few years ago, but we only recently saw the movie Yes Man, with Jim Carrey. The premise of the story is that a guy who normally said no to everything was going to say “yes!” to every opportunity that presented […]
What do volcanoes and bologna have in common? Why, Grant, of course.
Scene: The dining room. Â My good friend Dave is visiting. He is Grant’s Godfather and in that role, he is subjected to endless stories, games and all around squirrely-ness. Â After one long winded story about the Lego ship he built, Grant said the ship crashed into a volcano. Dave: “Crashed into a volcano? Bummer. Â OK, […]
I’m going to start letting Grant pick out my shoes.
This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links. Scene: Â I am working on the computer. Â Grant is in the next room watching TV. Â I cannot see him or the TV, but I can hear everything. Â I hear the word Shoedazzle, whatever that is. Â I assume that it’s like the Bedazzler, but specifically for shoes. […]
Make lunch fun: Sea Monster Hot Dogs
I shared this little lunch time project over at Skip To My Lou’s Craft Camp series last month. Â I am not generally a “kids’ craft” kind of mom, but I still need to make Grant lunch, right? Â Might as well liven it up every now and then. In this particular case, we made sea-monster hot […]
Evil, talking socks.
Scene: Getting ready for our annual camping trip and we’ve been charging the batteries for the walkie-talkies.  Grant had a dental check-up a few hours before and had chosen plastic vampire teeth from the dentist’s “goodie box” as a reward for being a good patient not squirming too much. I noticed a lone sock sitting on […]
The Atlanta TSA stole my son’s yo-yo.
So I just got back from The Haven Conference, which was fabulous and I’ll tell you all about it in the the next few days. Â There were lots of great sponsors there and one of them, Fish Foam, was giving out toy yo-yo’s along with samples of their product. Most women aren’t that into yo-yo’s, […]
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