I’ve posted about them numerous times, the first-day-of-school, and last-day-of-school surveys that my kids fill out for their scrapbooks.  I’ve also commented before that as they get older, their answers get less silly.  I still remember when Kendrie was in kindergarten or so, and she answered both my age and my weight as “47″.    Or [...]

As always, the first-day-of-school surveys yielded some interesting information from each of my children.  I do miss the days when they answered simpler questions, such as “How tall is Dad?” with “55″ and “How old is Mom?”  Also “55″.  As they get older, their answers aren’t as silly or as funny, but I still love [...]

The olden days: I would hurry, on the last afternoon at school, from class to class to class.  When they were all in elementary school together, it was not really that hard to do.  I traveled the most when they were in three different hallways, hoofing it from room to room to room, but could [...]

Kendrie, “Mom, what do you think of my costume for my skit at school?  Dad helped me make it.  Do you like it?” Mom:  “Sure I do.  Are you guys re-enacting a toga party?” Kendrie, “No.” Mom:  “Are you a ghost?” Kendrie:  “No.” Mom:  “A Roman emperor?” Kendrie:  “No.” Mom:  “So just what exactly *are* [...]

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 [...]

This is a variation of something very nasty (and yet, oh so funny) that someone shoe-polished on my sister’s get-away car at her wedding.  I was immature, and I laughed.  So sue me. But today, I’m talking about my kids.  And how many days INAFREAKINGROW they have been out of school due to the ice/snow storm [...]

Not in their entirety, but here are a few snippets of the first-day-of-school questionaire I give my children each year. “For lunch I had …..”Kendrie: 2 tacosKellen: Pizza sticksBrayden: Crap. It’s school food — cold meat and hardened cheese. “Lunch was actually pretty ….”Kendrie: Fun!Kellen: AverageBrayden: Bad “One goal I am setting for myself this [...]

First day of school: Child #3 forgot both her water bottle and her snack. Child #3′s best friend needed a baggie to hold her extra pencils. Thankfully we live so close to the school I could run home and get everything the girls needed and bring it all back to school before the day had [...]

Today, I went out for a leisurely breakfast with girlfriends. And the baby angels sang and wept with happiness. Today, I shopped at Target and none of the following — candy, gum, toys, bouncy balls, flamin’ hot cheetos, video games, Disney movies, or stuffed animals — landed in my cart. And the baby angels sang [...]

Kellen and Kendrie both won “Sensational Citizen” awards at their school on Friday. Back in MY day, it was called “Citizens of the Month”, and they did it …. well … monthly. But now they only do it once every nine weeks, AND the kids totally get to leave campus and go out for a [...]