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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Last Day of School

Ben and Lucy’s last day of third and second grade.  And last day at Oakdale forever.  Why did I not expect the torrent of tears that I shed as soon as I walked in the building this morning?  I managed to say thank you to all their teachers.  But I did not stay for the […]

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everybody. It’s been a strange, un-Easterly day here.  Karl stayed home from church, sick as the guy in the Alka-Seltzer cold commercial with the giant, red, cartoon nose, snuffling and blowing and sneezing wall-shaking sneezes.  I asked Ben to please put on clean clothes for church, “not the ones you wore yesterday, which […]

This is War

Oh baby, the gauntlet has been thrown.  Game on.  This is war. Ben got us back for the room-wrapping escapade.  He had help and he played dirty.  He will pay. On Thursday afternoon, Ben came up to me with his head bowed and, pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket, said “Mom, I […]

Punked

Those close to me know that I am humor-impaired. I really just do not have a talent for it at all. So Nature provided me with Ben, a 9-year old boy who loves a good joke. Children sometimes do offer us an opportunity to try for more ourselves, to become better people. Ben has an […]

Showing Off

Look at the awesome Art Shelf I put together yesterday! Isn’t it great?!  Is it too late for me to be a preschool teacher?  Or maybe just a preschool-classroom-organizer?  You know how some people feel after running 5 miles?  I’ve heard talk of them endorphin thingies.  Well, putting that Art Shelf together [and I did […]

What I Am Celebrating

We took our yearly February trip to Florida last month. Neither Karl nor I can wait for the kids’ school’s official spring break, which happens in April. February is our winter breaking point. If we don’t see sun and green, things start to seem undoable. So, for the past few years we have taken advantage […]