Always evolving, Never Average
When it comes to elementary education, there are three things I feel pretty strongly about. I don’t believe in homework for students in grades K through 4. I think kids need way more recess than they currently receive. I don’t believe kids should have cell phones in school. If you’ve been around here for a …Read More
Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk …Read More
I post pictures of my kids on Facebook and Instagram or here on the blog doing stuff that’s noteworthy or admirable or whatever all the time. Like this picture of Number 5 when she was Timon in the 4th grade play: And this one of Number 3 the night of his 8th grade graduation: And …Read More
It was Number 5 and Number 6’s birthday yesterday. Since it was also Number 3’s 8th grade graduation last night, I wanted to be able to celebrate on their actual day. But since we are also still in school, I had to get creative. So I picked them up early from school, along with Number …Read More
Today was Number 5 and 6’s birthday and also Number 3’s 8th grade moving up ceremony. I’ll get to the birthdays tomorrow. Today was very busy and very tiring and I just wanna go to bed but I am 4 for 4 with 4 posts in 30 days, and I am on a massive action …Read More
I am one of the first people to preach the importance of allowing your kids to experience disappointment and discomfort and failure. To allow them to sit in discomfort without swooping in to rescue them and to make things better. And then today I was presented with one of those situations. I am not presenting …Read More
Yesterday a friend of mine shared this (from Smashed Peas and Carrots) on her Facebook wall: I love this. In theory. And I know it works for some people. Maybe it works for most of the people. But for me it doesn’t work. Not all of it, anyway. We do the sleeping as late as …Read More
Every year when I am asked the question, “What do you want for Mother’s Day?” I say the same things. I want to be able to do all the stuff I used to before I had kids. I want someone else to clean my house. I want some appreciation for everything I do. But I …Read More
When I was a young mom, I compared myself to every other mom out there. My house wasn’t as clean as theirs was, my kids weren’t dressed as nicely as theirs were, I wasn’t as thin as them, as pretty as them, as put together as them, as organized as them… The list went on …Read More
Ten weeks ago, I, along with three other moms, volunteered to direct and produce the 4th grade play at Number 5’s school. We did this not because that’s how it’s always happened, but because this was the first year in as many years as we could remember that there was not going to be a …Read More
