So I’m over spending 30 minutes every morning making lunches for my kids. It just takes up too much time. And you know what? They can do it themselves. Even the 2nd and 3rd grader. I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but wasn’t able to come up with a way to make sure […]
Archives for August 2013
I told her it was HER “special day.” But I think it really was mine.
People often say to me, I don’t know how you do it with 7 kids. And to be honest, sometimes I don’t either. When I found out I was pregnant with Number 6, I was a little panicked. Actually, a lot panicked. Especially when he started out as twins. It wasn’t exactly planned. The day after I had […]
Dear Teachers
Dear Teachers, As we enter another school year, I want to take a minute to write you this note and let you know how much I appreciate what you are about to embark upon with my children. But first, a little story. My favorite, and most influential, teacher of all time was my 5th grade […]
Dr. Seuss said it best. As usual.
I may have said this before, but I used to see this therapist. She was a life changer for me. And one of the biggest things she taught me was that, as she put it, I needed to develop a “teflon coating.” I used to take everything so personally. To the point that it was […]
Did my kids read for 600 minutes this summer? I don’t really know. And I don’t really care.
I was a teacher before I had kids. A young, opinionated, judgemental teacher. I often found myself saying, “How hard is it?” How hard is it to clean out a backpack? How hard is it to fill out a permission slip? How hard is it to check your kid’s work? How hard is it to […]
Give me a brake.
Last Friday I got a message from Miss P asking if Number 2 could take care of her dogs on the following Monday. I forgot to get back to her until Sunday, letting her know that he’d be happy to do it. On Monday I woke up with a really bad case of conjunctivitis. Combined […]