Her hair was bed-tousled and her eyes were barely open when a welcome little body in sponge bob pajamas came walking into my room. She was rubbing her eyes as she crawled into my bed. I snuggled her close for a minute then she asked.
“Obama won the election,” I told her.
She thought about [...]
Youngest and I had a nice quiet day today. She likes to walk her sister to the bus each morning. I think it’s her way of feeling she has some control over being separated from her sister. She puts her on the bus and waves goodbye then walks the few hundred feet [...]
e-e-f-g-g-clunk-f-e-pause-d-cc-d-ee-d-d wait where was I?
That is the sound coming from my daughters room. She’s just finished her second guitar lesson. She’s been playing around with a guitar since May and last week she decided she wanted an electric guitar. I told her if she learned to play an acoustic guitar I would get her one. [...]
I was looking at the calendar today and noticed that there are only seven weeks before the start of the new school year. This isn’t something I normally care about, but this year is different. My oldest will heading off to middle school this year. I have mixed feelings about it. [...]
Me: Are you going to drink your milk out of an elephants snotty nose?
Youngest: Hey, why not? Yesterday I drank out of a monkeys tail.
Me: Oh.
When my oldest was about four her grandfather told her not to step on cracks because it would break her mothers back. A few days later we were walking and I noticed her stepping on a crack in the sidewalk and then looking at me. A few feet later she stepped on another [...]
“In middle school they label you like a soup can.”
That’s what my older daughter told me when we were driving to the store. I waited for her to continue and in a few minutes she did.
“T. says I could be a prep because I am tall, thin, and pretty. I’d have to make my hair [...]