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…of motherhood, that is. So Carrie got off the bus yesterday and declared school to be boring. She said the only part she liked was recess and that was too short. And then Anna turned out to be feverish right after dinner, and was up half the night. She apparently has the same virus that [...]
Today, Carolyn headed off for her first day of Kindergarten! I got up at 6:20, got myself ready and packed a yummy lunch (a ham & cream cheese pinwheel sandwich, baby carrots, grapes, olives, letter pretzels and two tiny vanilla cookies). Then I managed to get the kids dressed early enough that I had time [...]
Today, Labor Day, marks the end of summer and the beginning of my favorite season: fall! It’s a little more complicated now that Carrie’s headed off to school full time. I’m sort of treating this like I try to treat New Year’s: begin as you mean to go on. Today I have: – caught up [...]
Anna officially has yet another tooth. The other upper tooth, to the right of the middle teeth. And Carrie seems to be completely better. She slept all night last night, started out the morning pretty rough, but then after going back to sleep until lunchtime she suddenly woke up, ate a full lunch, and insisted [...]
OK, so last night Carrie went to bed with a fever. I don’t sleep well when one of the kids is sick. I’m so intent on listening for one of them needing me that I can barely fall asleep, and when I do I sleep very poorly. And then sometime in the middle of the [...]
Today started out wonderfully. I gave Carrie the chance to do whatever she wanted on her last weekday before school – a playground, the musuem, the zoo… She chose to stay home to ride her tricycle, draw with chalk, and bake cookies. We did all of those things, and Denis even came home from work [...]
I’m pretty sure that I might be the only mom in the world who actually enjoys grocery shopping with the kids. Don’t get me wrong, it takes a lot longer than shopping alone, and there are the usual requests for the boxes of brightly colored, sugar laden cereals and snacks. But we’ve got a system. [...]
Carrie’s teacher (along with a lot of the other primary school teachers) had an open house this afternoon. We went and met her teacher and dropped off her supplies, and then she had a chance to ride a bus around the campus. I rode with her, and let me just say that I’m really, really [...]
Anna has another tooth, finally! Upper left, next to the center teeth. Those center teeth are really, really crooked, too. I’m a little worried that her finger sucking habit is going to cost us a small fortune in braces someday…