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days off
I just love days off from school, especially when they happen in the middle of the week! Mondays and Fridays off extend the weekend, and are great fun as well, but usually I use the day off to make up for goofing up during the weekend when hubbie was home so the kids don’t get [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HOME
FINALLY, the third marking period of the 2007-2008 school year has come to an end. I am not sorry to see the last term end as it brought with it much drama, tears, arguments & life lessons that are always hard to learn. I am not certain I truly thought we would see [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )must we not learn from (our mother’s) mistakes?
poor beachboy is not having a great week (month, 6 months) by any stretch of the imagination … and it is driving me batty! Mainly driving me batty because that poor child is living every mistake, screw-up, test and trial that I experienced at the same age. I don’t really have a good [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )day off from school
thanks to MLK day, we had no school today! I tried something new today, and spent the entire day at our best friend’s house so that the kids could all play and hang out … and we could enjoy a day of no driving and dropping, laundry, cleaning and organizing. I took my [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Alzheimer’s
oh my heavens, our extended family is beginning to realize that in spite of all of the awesomeness that exists in our lives it is time to accept that Alzheimer’s is now touching us and we need to find a way to deal with it. My grandmother was killed in a car accident when [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Saturday
we spent the day taking down holiday decorations, re-arranging the living room (for the 4th time this year) and watching poor beachboy get CRUSHED in basketball. All in all a bizarrely comforting day … nothing too exciting going on, just a very “family day” with plenty of time to chat with the kids even [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )another gramma gift
Christmas07 076, originally uploaded by lauri_weeks.
again, I say, where is the mother that I grew up with????? Beachboy asked over and over for “club penguin” merch, and being the good mother that I was trained to be, I said “no” over and over and over.
BEHOLD… Beachboy starts yelling “awesome, Gramma you [...]
what happened to my mom?
**discussion of pic to follow – timeout to say “thanks” to MissZoot for her help this morning in teaching me how to use FLICKR to have reasonable size images on my blog without changing the sizes of all of my images on my hard-drive. A godsend which I have been struggling to figure out [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )back from vaca …
… and I actually missed the kids a TON today!! We really did have a fabulous time with the Big Mouse and all of his cronies and for the first time since hubbie and I vacationed by ourselves I was really sad to see our vacation come to an end. We “do” this particular trip [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Happy 4th of July
There is nothing like having your parents live in "Mayberry East"! Honestly, next year I am making a banner for the festivities. After sitting on a freezing cold beach first thing in the morning for junior lifeguards, we headed over to my parents neighborhood for a few hours of "Old Fashioned 4th of July Fun!" [...]
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