“Circle, circle, dot, dot. Now you have a cootie shot,” said Elizabeth, teaching her little brother how to give them.
“Mom, does a real cootie shot hurt?” she asked me.
“There’s no such thing as a real cootie shot,” I told her. “They’re just pretend.”
“I thought you had to get one when you get married,” [...]
Filed under: Elizabeth, family, funny kids on January 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I haven’t blogged much this month. One of the downsides to using my iPhone constantly is that I hardly ever get on my laptop anymore. I can email and Facebook from my iPhone, but I haven’t really figured out how to blog from it yet.
We are settling into Little Rock. It seems a little easier [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Little Rock, Phillip, church, family, kids on January 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am NOT cut out to be a single mom! Lannie comes home for the weekend today, and I am SO glad. The kids have been extra emotional with their dad gone– especially Phillip. It took me two days to get him to calm down.
Caleb and I have noticed that Phillip acts especially crazy right [...]
Filed under: Elizabeth, family, kids, parenting on November 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Overheard conversation between Caleb and Elizabeth:
“Hey, Dude.”
“I’m not a dude. If I’m a dude, where’s my mustache?”
“Not all dudes have mustaches.”
“Okay, but all dudes have hair.”
“Some dudes don’t have very much hair.”
“Okay, all dudes have hair somewhere.“
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, funny kids, kids on November 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A sad amendment to the notes I wrote about Elizabeth’s second teacher change. We found out last week that her teacher, Mr. Cowart, had been in the hospital with a very serious case of pneumonia since his leave of absence. We also learned that he had battled cancer in the past and that it may [...]
Filed under: Elizabeth, grief, kids, parenting, school on October 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The plot thickens in the ongoing saga of Elizabeth’s school situation…
To bring you up to speed, she had to change teachers after the first week of school because her teacher was moved to third grade. The explanation offered by the school was that there were not enough second graders registered to warrant the number of [...]
Filed under: Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, parenting, school on September 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t posted anything about Elizabeth’s new school yet, because frankly I was waiting until it got better to post about it. I realized that I was beginning to sound like Debbie Downer in my blog lately, so I thought I’d try to be more positive.
She had a great first week at school, but [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, kids, school on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
After nearly two months of trying to decide what to do about school next year, we’ve finally decided to continue homeschooling Caleb. Elizabeth will go back to public school. I’m not sure what I expected from this homeschooling experiment of the last semester, but I certainly thought it would be temporary. I [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, kids, parenting, school on June 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Elizabeth asked Caleb for help with her geography lesson today. The topic was “community helpers.”
Elizabeth: I have to write a sentence about what my mom does. What does mom do? Is she a teacher?Caleb: No, she’s a homewrecker.Me: Do you mean homemaker?Caleb: Yeah. Or you could say [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, funny kids, stay at home mom on March 13th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, I was helping Elizabeth with her Bible story lesson, when I noticed she had left one of the items from her assignment blank. She was supposed to pick out ways to be a good helper in church out of a provided list. One of the items she left blank was “help a [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, church, funny kids on March 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »