It’s the day of the prom, and it will be my last. This is my third and last child to go through the prom thing and he is not as excited as the girls, but still worked up enough to shower and shave. Those of you with teen boys understand that this measures about a [...]
Entries from May 2009
Last Dance
May 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Kids · Life Observations
See Spot Still Be Able to Take You
May 18th, 2009 · 7 Comments
I date myself, but I still can hear the old line from my First Grade reader, “See Spot run.” For you younger readiers, Spot was Tom and Judy’s dog and they were the main characters in the reading series. These poor kids had a very limited vocabulary. All they usually said was related to various [...]
Tags: Moms
A Time to Laugh, A Time to Cry
May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Daughter #2 graduated from college this past Saturday (and the most boring speaker talked forever about quantum blah-blah for nearly 40 minutes and she was a journalist/television personality on Fox News who should have had a much better speech. I formally offer to edit/write her next speech if she should like to contact me. I [...]
Tags: Moms
Annual Clutter Exchange Program
May 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
This weekend was my community’s annual yard sale. It was the largest one we have had in 7 years, and the official count was 101 yard/garage sales, which isn’t bad considering there are only about 800 residences in the area. It’s mostly a lot of fun and my guess is that we just exchange our [...]
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