3 pairs scissors10 assorted Crayola markers, broad line, classic colors24 Crayola crayons, not washable8 Crayola twistable crayons24 Crayola twistable colored pencils50 Crayola colored pencils2 black and white Mead composition notebooks5 one-inch three-ring binders1 one and a half inch binder with five dividers1 package 7-tab binder dividers4 packages 5-tab binder dividers3 packages loose-leaf notebook paper2 packages […]
Read moreShe was helping me at the kitchen sink. I was scrubbing potatoes, and she was washing the sink with the long-handled-soap-dispensing-spongy-scrubbing-thing we have. Then I turned the water on, and then I let out a little scream because, Very Suddenly, my shirt was wet. She had wrapped a rubber band around the handle of the […]
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It was a good week. Weird. But good. Bill and I arrived home from Pennsylvania last Saturday night Without The Children. Yes, we left them there On Purpose to enjoy a few more days with their Pennsylvania grandparents before being whisked away to Long Island by their New York grandparents for most of this past […]
Read moreTrinity School has a half-day kindergarten. This is a rare commodity these days: working parents and busy schedules have determined that children ages five and six years old don’t need a shorter school day. They can handle a day that’s just as long as a first-grader, or even a sixth grader. And they do. But […]
Read moreLater in the afternoon, it’s a good idea to work in a visit to Duke Gardens, where we’ve taken our children countless times but where Gwen, until Saturday, had never been. While there, it’s bestto spend time in the Best Climbing Tree in the Worldand the Mommies discover that the highest branches are the best […]
Read moreSo what do you do when the Dearest and Oldest of Friends come for a visit, and that visit lasts for Only One Day? For starters, you have that lemonade stand you’ve been talking about– the one you’ll hold to raise money for Africa. And at the suggestion of your friend Caleb, you don’t set […]
Read moreBreakfast in bed including fresh strawberries with a single rose in a vase on the tray? Yes. Homemade card from Emma Grace? Yes. Handmade coasters featuring water-color flowers? Yes. Handmade magnetic photo frame featuring photo of Everett holding a baby chick from his egg-hatching days at school reminiscent of an old photo of Everett at […]
Read moreEverett was doing his homework, reading aloud to me. We had finished the most recent chapter book, and so I looked around for something new for him to read, something that wasn’t so long. I found a book of fairy tales, and Everett chose to read “Puss in Boots.” The story moved along nicely. He […]
Read moreMost days are seamless as water. Weeks, months– these things flow into one another like so many overlapping bays. We have no river mouth, no branching tributary to mark our place. We drift on the current unaware, and then suddenly find ourselves looking for landmarks in a place devoid of any landscape at all: “Did […]
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