This post is going to be a little bit all over the place, but I do have a point. So bear with me. The past couple years have been very difficult. This is no secret. The past few months have been even harder. That’s no secret either. And the past three weeks have just been ridiculous. […]
Archives for September 2015
Your kid isn’t the best. And it’s okay to be honest with them about that.
I was a kid in the seventies, and I graduated from high school in the eighties. It was the era of Simon and Atari and the Sony Sports Walkman and boomboxes and floppy discs. If you wanted to “tape” your favorite song, you sat next to the radio with a tape recorder for an hour waiting for […]
Raising the bar.
I’ve been talking a lot about Number 6 and his transition into kindergarten this week, but one of the other kids has had a pretty big transition, too. This year, Number 3 moved from the elementary school up to the middle school. I know it’s not like he scaled Mount Everest or anything. But this is kind […]
How I Keep On Top Of The Kids’ School Papers
With one kid in preschool, one in kindergarten, one in first grade, one in fourth, one in fifth, and one in eleventh, the amount of papers coming home each day from school is a little bit crazy. I have sucked in paper organization department every single school year since becoming a parent. But this year, […]
Dear Number 6
Today I sent you off to kindergarten. All summer you have been pretty excited to go to elementary school. To ride the bus with Number 5. To carry a backpack and your own lunch box. Yesterday, when it was time to go to orientation, you were excited, too. You were excited to see your classroom […]