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Our Most Embarrassing School Art, To Date Anyway

August 1, 2012

For all of you with girls I want to remind you that little boys are different. For little boys, that area is a toy that stays with you. To quote one of my kids when they were three, “When can I get one of these BALLS out so I can see what they look like?” Your daughter is putting shoes on her Barbie’s feet right now and I have an anatomically (in)correct foot-less pasta dude on my fridge.

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The Difference Between Mothers and Sons

July 25, 2012

This is what I do with hydrangeas from the yard. Cute, right? Get it?  It is an ice cream cone.   Even cooler is that they are all from the same bush is our yard. The boys brought the stalk you see below, into the house yesterday and asked me if they can cut more [...]

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An Update With Nothing Dead to Report

July 17, 2012

Our Tom Sawyer, (Peter) caught a squirrel with his live trap within four hours.

It was immediately let go after enjoying its apple.

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I Don’t Know What to Name This Post

July 16, 2012

The motor home has been forever “for sale” on the back forty. I felt the need to snap some photos of it in case one of those shows like American Pickers or Antiques Road Show stops by and decides the “seventies mobile” needs to be in a museum. All the years I spent trying to keep this monster out of the background in the pictures I take while we are in Michigan and now I am snapping pictures of it to make us laugh when we are old.

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The Trouble With Trends

June 30, 2012

The trouble with trends is they come back. They are cyclical. A swing of a pendulum and we go from neons to pastels and from pointy high heels to round toe ballet shoes.

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Frog Hunting With Kids During Summer Evenings

June 28, 2012

Sense of humor…Peter likes to take “frog orders” before he heads out. I say I would like a green tree frog and his brothers might say a bullfrog. Peter especially likes to watch people open the tote and see how many he has brought home. Below is poor Mitchell not expecting dad to pull giganto bullfrog out.

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How to Stifle Education with Cocktails and Other Threats

June 25, 2012

may have sat at a table for ten and been one of only two women and still somehow managed to bring up “Fifty Shades of Grey.” I then tried guessing which of the men looked tired enough to deem that their wives were reading it or had recently read it. This is no small feat considering most radiologists look tired from lack of sunlight and interaction with humans, I may have also mentioned this.

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Ikea and Dragons

June 22, 2012

I keep telling Peter he wont be walking him on a leash if he doesn’t stop “loving” on him so much. I told him that the little guy is adjusting to his new home and needs to stay in his cage but I found Peter asleep like this…

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New Pet (Coming Soon to WP)

June 20, 2012

Here is one of my early posts you might have missed.  I will be back tomorrow with something new.  I am busy with a NEW PET!  Oh my word!  What was I thinking!   I had to buy two other containers of LIVING creatures to feed it. SOS!!! “Mom, the baby is eating the dirt [...]

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This Stuff Only Happens To Me!

June 14, 2012

Have you ever felt like your kids school’s teachers and staff think you are disheveled, bonkers or possibly a stripper? Well, after the story I am about to tell you you will realize that my kids principal and school counselor probably think I am all three.

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