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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: May 2010
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Something for a Song. They've asked me to write them a poem, my boys have. In four-four time. And it will not, in fact, be so much of a poem as it will be song lyrics, lyrics written for the music they have already written during one of their music sessions in the basement. And Really Enjoying Himself. And now they've written a song. At least one, maybe more. I don't know how many, in truth. But they need lyrics, so they've asked me. But a poem can't be that hard, right? Because it'...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010. The pick-up line at my son's homeschool program is long and there is a procedure to follow. Pull your minivan up to some cones. Your child spots your car, runs for it, jumps in, and you pull away quickly before he/she is belted so the next minivan can pull in. We homeschoolers live on the edge. Today, my small son jumps in with great concern. "Mom, Mom, do we have any peas at home? So, what's that you made today? Pause "I don't know.". Did you start a new unit today? Oh And f...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: August 2010
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Monday, August 16, 2010. Time Out, Spaghetti, and Baby Jesus. A couple of years ago when our oldest two kids were toddlers, their Gram, who had been a preschool teacher in a previous life, thrilled the kids with a sweet Christmas craft. Using Quaker oatmeal containers (and don't all good preschool crafts begin with Quaker oatmeal containers? When, sadly, it was time to put away the Christmas decorations, I carefully wrapped and packed the mangers for use the following year. The baby Jesus? Humorous, yes,...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Every week after Sunday school, we ask Benjamin (3 1/2 years old) about the story the teacher told. Usually we get an answer like "Jesus was in it," or "God happened to Jesus," which I still haven't quite figured out. This week, however, he must have really enjoyed the story, since he said this:. Adam ate the apple peach. God was gigantic sad. They left the garden. I like that summary, apple peach and all. Monday, September 21, 2009. Now let's do Zoe, Mama! Sighif only this...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: Time Out, Spaghetti, and Baby Jesus
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Monday, August 16, 2010. Time Out, Spaghetti, and Baby Jesus. A couple of years ago when our oldest two kids were toddlers, their Gram, who had been a preschool teacher in a previous life, thrilled the kids with a sweet Christmas craft. Using Quaker oatmeal containers (and don't all good preschool crafts begin with Quaker oatmeal containers? When, sadly, it was time to put away the Christmas decorations, I carefully wrapped and packed the mangers for use the following year. The baby Jesus? Humorous, yes,...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: March 2010
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Monday, March 15, 2010. Sam left a couple of Bibles at church accidentally this weekend. When I asked him if he had managed to recover them, he said yes; they were right were he had left them. That's the nice thing about having our own building," I replied. [Until this fall, our church didn't have its own building but rented a school. You never knew where- or if- you'd find something left behind.]. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches. Other blogs we like:. A Place of Springs.
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: November 2009
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. From Dust Thou Art. I know that for many people, the onset of dementia changes their personalities drastically. A co-worker of mine described how her children could not believe that their angry grandmother had truly been a kind and patient mother until the confusion of Alzheimer's altered her. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches. Musings by wonderful women on the wild ride of raising fabulous kids. From Dust Thou Art. Other blogs we like:.
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: August 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009. I'm not one of those moms who spends time daydreaming about what her child will be when he grows up. (Most days, I'm just looking forward to him growing up! And since we've graduated from the "I'm going to be a fireman-dump truck driver-garbage collector-excavator operator" phase, I rarely have conversations with Luke about what he expects he'll become someday. But after our trip to the grocery store this afternoon, I have to wonder. What makes you think that's the code? It was i...
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: February 2010
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Friday, February 12, 2010. I took the couch cushion outside to shake out all the graham cracker crumbs from a certain four-year-old's snack, saying "You're such a little mess-maker! I came back inside, replaced the cushion, and my sweet son said, "I'm the mess maker but you're the mess clean it upper.". Nail on the head, little boy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches. Musings by wonderful women on the wild ride of raising fabulous kids. Other blogs we like:.
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Mommy Blog: Thoughts from the Trenches: Effects of the Eighties
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Sunday, April 11, 2010. Effects of the Eighties. We were in the car on the way to school, listening to Mute Math's latest (. Have you heard it? If you haven't, you should get it. It kicks our corporate boutakis over here at the Stevenson house), and I was dancing, as any normal commuting mother should when listening to Mute Math's latest offering on her way to work. Which is why Emma Grace pipes up and says, "Mom, how can you do that thing with your head? But is only to say that I should be young enough ...
