So, I went onto our school website tonight to check the kids’ grades, like I do every so often. I don’t really know why I check it ….. the grades that are consistently good are consistently good, and my checking doesn’t make them that way. And the grades that are consistently bad, well, are consistently [...]
Brayden is having a back-to-school slumber party tonight. Or perhaps since it is 1:37 am, I should say LAST night. Except the girls haven’t gone to bed yet, so technically its still tonight …. right? Whatever. I promised her I would take them TP’ing once it got late enough. They had a list of about [...]
I was taking pictures for a friend in the park the other evening and the girls went with me, to serve oh-so-willingly as helpers. OK, that’s a big fat lie. I paid each of them $3 to help me schlep my cameras and bags and stepstools and reflectors around the park …. THEN they made me [...]
Thanks, to all of you, for your opinions and answers. Seriously. I appreciate it. Brayden had a friend come home with her after school on Friday for a sleepover, so I wasn’t able to really question her about exactly what happened until the friend went home. Now I feel like we know a little more [...]
Coming to you, o peoples of the internet, to ask your opinion about a parenting dilemma. Blaine and I are disagreeing about the best way to resolve something, and while I won’t tell you which of us feels which way (although I can reassure you that *I* am right and *he* is wrong and *my* [...]
If you could choose a different name, what would it be? ”Alex, or Fern, because those names are really cool.” What artist gets played most on your ipod? “What kind of question is that? Justin Bieber, duhhhhhh. (sooooo hot!)” What’s the first thing you and your friends do when they spend the night? “Um, get [...]
Yesterday our middle school show choir competed in Irving, Texas, then spent the day at Six Flags. Brayden is not in the Show Choir, because heaven FORBID she do anything as tricky as sing and dance at the same time in front of an audience and risk embarrassment, even though I promise you she would [...]
Dear Junior Miss Clothes Designers and Manufacturers the world over ….. I went shopping with my 13-yr old daughter tonight, who is actually fairly modest. Yet, based on the selections you have made available to us in stores, the following comments fell from my lips in dressing rooms throughout the land this evening: **Those are too short. **That [...]
Many years ago, when Wayne’s World first came out, you might remember there was a scene in that movie that revitalized the Queen classic, “Bohemian Rhapsody“. I don’t remember exactly where we were living then (Minot, maybe?) but I clearly remember that one night a young man called the radio station and asked the DJ to play, [...]
Phase Two of the Braces Regimen. And that crying sound you heard? Our checkbook. The orthodontist here said, “Whoever did Brayden’s Phase One in Georgia did a really great job. She’ll only need this full set of braces on for eighteen months …. about a year shorter than normal.” I replied, “Oh, good. So does [...]