Kangatopia

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Winston! Thank you for not crying all the way to school and all through the drop off line and then have to be walked sobbing into school by the adult aid who oversees the morning chaos of stressed out parents and kids frantic to make it inside before [...]

Dear Bear,
Last night at baseball practice, I could see that you really are getting more and more comfortable with the game. I am determined to take you to the batting cages this winter. I love watching you play. You get so excited, and are so happy when you are out on that [...]

Dear Monkey,
Every morning you wake up bright and early, and this morning – while you did sleep in (not one of you got up on the first try) – you didn’t lose your composure when we couldn’t find the sneakers that Winston had stashed in the toys. I am always proud of you, but [...]

The girls and I started reading Eloise last night. Have you read this book? I just wish we had cracked it open sooner. It is pretty gosh-darned hilarious. I haven’t been consistently reading to the kids every night, so we’ve worked 15 minutes minimum into our routine for story time. [...]

It’s PJ day for the Kindergarteners, so Monkey went to bed last night in the pajamas she wore to school today. That was sooooo convenient!

Here’s a picture from the first day of school. It’s interesting to see how they’ve changed:

I finally remembered my password tonight so that I could login and post something for the first time in, what? a month? Except the problem is that I am not really feeling inspired to write anything. So, here’s a brief recap of the daily minutae in the basic order in which it [...]

One scary dude

One sleepy fairy

Two tinkling Tinkerbells

The power of three

It’s my lunch quarter hour and I still have about thirty seconds left to list the re-caps.
Bear came back from Disney World and he had, of course, an amazing and wonderful time. I think he was really happy to be home.
Monkey is doing great. She did her homework all on her own last [...]

I’ve gotten kind of behind on the updates. Granted, when the kids look back on this in later years, they probably won’t see the point of the understatement.
“Hey, Mom,” they’ll think, “you never said a word about my 5th birthday, or about the time you shouted obscenities at my tricycle when [...]

My son wrote this line in his fourth grade book report, “This is my favorite part because it is funny when I see other people’s pain and misery. (Excluding for my friends and family, with the exception of my sisters.)” I’m not sure if I am amused or disturbed… probably both.
My daughter, the youngest, [...]