Comments on Keeping Up with the Cases: Vacation and Staving

My first starts school this year. I somehow feel a...

2012-08-18T21:20:30.049-05:00

My first starts school this year. I somehow feel as though now I have to get my act together and be a REAL mom. Similar to not being a REAL adult until you are out of school and have a full time job, get married, or whatever it may be for each individual.

once, before Hazel was walking, I heard a suspicio...

2012-08-16T11:22:23.013-05:00

once, before Hazel was walking, I heard a suspicious noise and found her pulled up at the [closed] toilet upstairs. Atop the toilet lid was a small bit of baby puke and one of those plastic cappy things that covers the tops of the screws bolting your toilet to the ground.

So.

a) yuck.
b) that could have killed her
c) does that make me a terrible mother?

I always thought it was sad that parents would say...

2012-08-16T07:40:17.002-05:00

I always thought it was sad that parents would say "I can't wait for school to start!" until I had school aged children. Now I understand. They get bored. They fight/argue/eat quarters. Things they don't do while IN school.

Kindergarten is the hardest on the emotions. This year, I have a 2nd grader and a 1st grader, and I actually have very little emotional upset. The last two years, I had kindergarteners, and I cried like a baby.

They ate QUARTERS??? Holy cow, the boys seem so s...

2012-08-15T19:47:04.806-05:00

They ate QUARTERS??? Holy cow, the boys seem so small and the quarters seem to be so big....maybe I'm just used to remembering them as leetle.