Tag: family
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Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, thir-teen… please don’t make my little boy a man
Wells turned thirteen at the end of April. I know, I know. I haven’t posted about him here in a while so he’s only like 9 in blog years. Heck, I live with him and it snuck up on me. I wrote the list below and gave him a copy on his birthday. He told…
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can’t catch a {spring} break, but we can catch a bug
I try to blog more. But then get preoccupied with other important things like my job and laundry (my other job). And with some less important stuff. Last night, I spent 45 minutes watching baby ducks hatch via live feed from Graham’s kindergarten classroom. (It was mesmerizing. Or maybe the fumes from the paint job…
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the grapes of wrath
Last week, school was cancelled because of the weather. The boys hung out in their pjs most of the day and waited for snow. And then it snowed! They both asked me to fetch the snowball makers Santa brought last Christmas. Too bad it only lasted five minutes and didn’t stick. They were snow…