Category: parenting sure is fun

Day Two

This morning was tough, man. There was fighting, yelling, “I’m telling!”s, crying, whining. Oh getting back into a morning routine is so fun, isn’t it? Yesterday on the walk home from school I absolutely could not get a word in edgewise—they needed to tell me about their teachers (“Mr. Lee is,…

6th, 5th, 2nd

Today—officially—I’m the mama of a 6th grader, a 5th grader, and a 2nd grader. We didn’t really buy school supplies. We didn’t buy new school clothes, since our semi-annual shopping trip to Buffalo ended early and in tears (mine). We didn’t buy new shoes. We don’t know any of the…

On Googling Teachers

Sometimes I change my status updates on Facebook or I tweet something out and instead of it being ignored, responded to, favorited or whatever the cool kids are doing these days, the responses end up going in a direction I did not intend or could have even predicted. Remember that…