Always evolving, Never Average
4th grade is that right of passage year in our school district when the kids can finally join band. We don’t have orchestra in our district, so a band instrument is the only option as far as in-school opportunities go. When I was a kid, I started playing when I was around nine years old. …Read More
This morning I was going for a run and I was listening, as I do usually do, to a podcast. I have a few favorites. I listen to Amy Porterfield for business stuff. For a good ass-kicking and a reminder to take ownership of all my decisions/words/actions/failures, I listen to Jocko Willink. And when I …Read More
Sometimes my kids are really really really good. They cooperate with each other nicely, they work together, and play together, they are generally happy to be around each other, and they are nice to each other and enjoy each other’s company, and I say to myself, “I am doing a pretty good job.” These …Read More
We swim on a swim team that’s about 45 minutes from our house. Number 3 has practice six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Number 4 has practice five days a week on Monday and Wednesday through Saturday. Number 5 and 7 have practice three nights a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I’m …Read More
Halloween has always been a really big production for me. Even back in my single days, I really enjoyed coming up with a costume that had a pretty big wow factor. While it was a little bit stressful at times, it was mostly fun for me, and I enjoyed the process of coming up with …Read More
A couple years ago I met a mom through the swim team when I coached her daughter. Her name is Hannah Munroe. She is a very cool woman who is a photographer and artist. She asked me back at the beginning of the summer if Number 5 would like to be a model for an …Read More
Yesterday I wrote down everything I need to do this week. And then I had an anxiety attack. It’s Halloween tomorrow and early dismissal for three of the kids on three days and there are two class Halloween parties and I have three report card conferences on Friday, middle school cross country conference championships tonight, …Read More
Today has been A DAY. Where you are behind from the very beginning and then things just kind of unravel from there. Today was a Monday morning where the lack (or total absence) of planning ahead and being prepared over the weekend came back to bite me in the butt. Hard. We had a busy …Read More
Let me tell you why I love the sport of swimming SO MUCH. After being on the same swim team for six years, we switched to a new team about six months ago. This came as a surprise to our former team, and some people were really understanding and supportive of our decision, and then …Read More
If you think your kids don’t pick up on what is going on with you — even when you don’t verbalize it — you are wrong. If you think your kids have no self-awareness, you are also wrong. Of course, some of our kids have more awareness than others. Number 6, my eight-year-old, is like …Read More
