Crafty Daughter’s volleyball team at Penn State for volleyball tournament…Crafty Daughter is third from left, sitting on lion. Her team won the gold medal in the platinum division. Her team was young — most only 10 in a division for…
Category: Preteens and Tweens
Middle School Drama
The Middle School Midnight Madness. Would you want to be in middle school again? Raging hormones. Spats. Infighting. Silly behavior. No, I didn’t think so. From my vantage point behind the dinner table I had a birds eye view of…
Boys Love Play Kitchens, Too!
I’m participating in Grace’s Kitchen over at www.feelslikehomeblog.com. If you write about kids, food, or kids and food –think about posting! When my son was around 2 we pulled out the old Little Tikes kitchen. His sister got this kitchen…
March Is National Reading Month
10-year-old reads Teen magazine on plane to Disney while 8-year-old looks over her shoulder. If you have kids, hop on over to https://www.leapfrog.com/readingmonth/ to pledge how many minutes you will read to your child. I have one nonreader — I…
Live Blogging Bedtime
Round these parts we love our jammies so much…we even wear them outside! Considering live blogging bedtime. It would be interesting, no? A sociological experiment? A testament to how ornery my kids are? A glimpse in to my “putting-kids-to-bed” persona.…
Scary Phone Call
Kids were eating breakfast. Crafty Daughter was at school. I was checking e-mail, of course. Phone rings. I see Crafty Daughter’s middle school phone number. It was the school nurse. Crafty Daughter had passed out in homeroom. I asked how…
Disconnected from Internet Again! and Lived to Tell the Tale
I’m baaaaccckk after 13 hours at a volleyball tournament. It was gruelling, I tell you, absolutely gruelling. Not that I did anything remotely strenuous. No, not me. I sat in a chair or walked about outside or walked about inside.…
What To Expect When You Are Expecting: Ultrasounds
I have had three children. With my first child, the ultrasound was eagerly anticipated. We did not find out the sex of the baby. Our anticipation for the u/s was tempered by the fact that we had to see a…
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo! or Volleyballs Are Hard!
Today was going so well… Sporty Daughter and Coach Dad left on time for their volleyball tournament. Adventure Boy let me sleep in until 9:30…yay! Tackled the laundry, made lunch, responded to a few e-mails, and cleaned up the kitchen.…
Family Jobs — What Skill Do You Bring To Your Family?
Over at Robyn’sWorldOnline, Robyn posed the question “What Is Your Role in Your Family?” In our family, it goes like this: Mom on the Run — I’m the “ooo, I remember seeing a small post-it note with a number pencilled…
