Sometimes it’s hard to justify spending time on a trivial blog post when so much is going on in the world around us. The Spouse and I have been staying up late to watch a couple of documentaries on the events of 9/11 this week. Sixteen years later, the scenes and stories from that day…
Dear 3rd Grader, Over the weekend you turned 9 years old. Just as you’re in the middle of our family in terms of birth order, you’re also in the middle of your elementary years now. I’d like for this train to slow down a bit, but since that isn’t going to happen I’ll just have to…
I’ve mentioned before that I lean more toward the humanities than the sciences. Whenever we visit science museums I find myself listening to my 3rd Grader explain to me how things like gravity and magnetism work because I have no idea how they work. The Spouse is opposite of me in this way and loves science. So,…
School started one week ago today. For ten whole years I’ve had at least one small person in my care for most of the week. So, this is strange and uncharted territory as I enter into a new season of parenting school-age kids. Of course, this picture had to pop up on Facebook this morning to remind…