I have been wanting to come back to this topic for a while now, but since my first go-round with it cost me a couple virtual relationships and apparently painted me as a closet racist, I have been shy to return to it. Halfway through the school year, the fifth graders completed a huge project […]
Parenting Tragedies
Every so often I am reminded of how easy it is to completely screw up as a parent, and that some of those mistakes could last forever. I love fireworks. Not the noisy firecrackers, M80s or quarter sticks of my childhood that were used to blow up helpless frogs or kill piles of bullhead in […]
Kimani and Masha’s IEP Meetings — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
We just got back from our amazing vacation in Costa Rica, and that is what I wish I was writing about this morning but instead I am already fully immersed in the stresses of our daily life. Yesterday we had back-to-back IEP meetings for Kimani and Masha. We walked out of both meetings feeling unsure […]
How to Pick Your Kids’ Friends
This isn’t really a “How To” post but rather more of a question, how do you pick your kids’ friends, assuming of course that you actually can. And honestly, it is more of a when and where do you let your kids go overnight without you? This topic is on my mind because my son […]
The Latest Birthday Party Trend
With five elementary school-aged children, we go to a ton of kiddie birthday parties. It is usually pretty painful for whichever one of us ends up with the short stick and has to chaperon our over-excited child. But, it always seems to turn out great for the kids, so we keep doing it. In the […]