So what I’ve realized about the less-than-wonderful aspects of my children’s characters is that I must model for them what is Right and Good. I mean, how can I expect them to be long-suffering if I have No Patience Whatsoever? How can I expect them to control their tongues if I let fly at any […]
Read moreHe’s decided that, throughout this entire school year, he’s only ever going to wear shorts. No pants, no jeans, no sweat pants. None. He’ll only wear shorts. Interestingly, he’ll wear any of the above on the weekends. No worries. In fact, he was wearing pants on Friday. I know. I saw him. This restraint, this […]
Read moreSo no, I won’t tell you everything that’s been going on around here (see previous post), but I did recall something just now that I’ve been wanting to post here: Will and Everett have a blog. They started it this summer, not too terribly long after our brief but wonderful visit from These Wonderful People. […]
Read moreWe carved pumpkins tonight. I know, I know. We were supposed to do this about a week and a half ago. But the weekend before Halloween found me grading papers and writing mid-term comments, and then Halloween had to go and fall on a Friday, and who has time to carve pumpkins on a weeknight? […]
Read moreEmma Grace received her first American Girls catalog today. We looked through it together (after she looked through it while she was waiting for me to look through it with her), and then we looked through it again, this time with a Sharpie marker wielded perilously by her hand, circling the (many) items she might […]
Read moreHe needed new shoes. We got the ones for P.E. (that’s “physical education,” don’t you know) on the evening of the first day of school, the ones that he can’t wear anywhere other than the new gymnasium because we are all taking care of the gymnasium floor. And don’t read any resentment from me in […]
Read moreI lost my voice Entirely today. Or at least, Almost Very Nearly. There’s little to nothing of it left now, and what I have will go unheard because, I’ve decided, I won’t speak aloud for the rest of the day. That were the thing I should have done today, I know, but my students have […]
Read moreToday we had rain. I bought umbrellas for Bill and me way back in January, when the drought we had been suffering all fall and winter appeared to be abating. It had been so long since we’d needed an umbrella, I didn’t remember ever seeing one in house or car, and when the January display […]
Read moreWe have a friend named Nate who makes films. You can visit his film site by clicking on his company name, “Fourth Line Films” on the right. Or you can visit his blog here. Both links would be Very Much Worth your time. We got to know Nate last spring when he and a film […]
Read moreWill (that’s what we’re calling him these days; have you noticed?) has joined Trinity‘s sixth grade basketball team. He’s having a great time: practice two days (or more) a week, a game here and there. It’s great fun. He had to get a dress-shirt for game days, so Bill took him shopping at Sears. They […]
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