“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 »
So, for those who follow me on Facebook, I’ve alluded to this a few times in my status updates, but I haven’t really talked about it in-depth. Lannie will start a new job at UAMS in Little Rock on Monday.
In an odd twist of events, this is the same job that he accepted at UAMS [...]
Filed under: Homeschooling, Memphis, family on November 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We took all three of the kids to see “High School Musical 3″ in the movie theatre tonight. We watched the first two movies on the Disney Channel, free of charge. They sucked us in with the first two so they could charge us $40 to see the third installment.
Phillip had a hard time staying [...]
Filed under: Disney, Phillip, family, funny kids, growing up, kids on October 26th, 2008 | No 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 »
Phillip will be three years old in about 3 weeks, and we can really tell that he will soon grow out of the terrible twos. He still has his moments of terrifying tantrums (which leave us scratching our heads, usually saying, “What did I do wrong? I put your milk in the blue cup? Why [...]
Filed under: Phillip, family, kids on September 10th, 2008 | 2 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 »
Caleb, my oldest “baby,” went to sleep-away camp with a church group for the first time last week. They went to Alabama for four nights, which meant there was no way he could come home even if he wanted to.
Caleb is usually a pretty independent kid, so we were not too worried about him, [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Memphis, church, family, parenting on August 6th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Subtitle: One of the few times I’ve seen my husband lose it in public
Lannie called me on the way home from work yesterday and wanted to go out for dinner. He had been seeing IHOP commercials and was craving pancakes. I already had dinner in the oven, but I saved it for [...]
Filed under: Memphis, Phillip, family, kids, parenting on July 31st, 2008 | 2 Comments »