Tired.

I know this will ruffle some feathers, and I apologize for that, but I have some things I want to say. I promised myself last week that I wasn’t going to post on this subject, especially after the firestorm at a friend’s blog, but here goes…
I’m tired of being lumped into a category that [...]

Bound to Happen

Well, it didn’t take long. Today, Luke forgot to bring his lunch to school! It was packed and ready to go, and in his excitement to get on the bus, he left it near the door. I left immediately after he did with the two other boys to take Bennett to preschool [...]

School Days

Now that the stress of last week and Luke starting first grade is behind us, I’m starting to get excited about what the school year schedule looks like!
Bennett started preschool this morning with quite possibly the two best preschool teachers I’ve ever met. I am so happy for him…while he is crazy rambunctious at [...]

Why I Don’t Love Junie B Jones

I may be in the minority in this opinion…I don’t know. I’m new to this phase of books for children. But I had to get this out: I hate Junie B Jones.
I was at a garage sale last weekend where I scored a TON of short chapter books for $5 – literally, there [...]

First Grade.

I tried not to be all teary-eyed and anxious about today, but the truth is, I wanted to go back to bed and curl up in a ball and just pretend like this isn’t happening. As big a deal as the start of kindergarten was, this feels so much bigger to me. The [...]

School Supplies? Check.

Last year, I blogged about the date that Luke and I went on when we bought his school supplies. It’s funny, because while I’ve thought of that evening many times, I’d forgotten the particulars and was thankful that I’d posted about it.
I’ll wait here while you go read last year’s quick post where I [...]

Ideas? Please Share!

Mandy commented on the WFMW post that she’d like some lunch ideas for her daughter…and I was thinking the same thing!  I want to know what other people send to school with their kids.
Here are some things that will make their way into Luke’s lunchbox, I’m sure:
Peanut butter and jelly or honey sandwich
Turkey/ham and cheese [...]

WFMW: My Mom Would Be So Proud!

This week’s WFMW theme is “Back to School.” I had already written up a lot of this post, and just decided to turn it into a WFMW since I haven’t participated in a while!
There are so many things that I miss being able to tell my mom, even dumb little things, and this is [...]

Color Blind

I don’t mean that literally; I mean that I think Luke potentially doesn’t see skin color. I know that lots of kids are beautifully made that way, but I’m starting to think that Luke has an extreme case of it.
Early in the school year, they did a unit in school about about skin color [...]

Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

If kindergarteners can figure this out, why can’t grown ups (especially people in power)? I don’t have a drawing of my favorite term he learned this year, which was opportunity cost…they even did a lesson where they had to make a choice between getting a pencil or trading it in for something else, knowing [...]