It’s been a busy summer!
The kids have been taking riding lessons, and loving it! Mr. Campbell is a great role model for both of them.  They’re learning SO much, and gaining confidence. It’s going to be harder to work into the schedule during the school year, but I think we need to find a way […]

Maria Montessori strongly cautioned against leading children to believe that fantasy was reality, believing that it made it harder for children to distinguish between the two and led to issues of trust later on.
We’ve had our kids in Montessori since they were 3 and 4–they’re now, as of yesterday, 7 and 8–and had never known […]

I. am. livid.
This morning, Christina was watching a Wiggles dvd, and a Christmas song came on.  Angelina asked Clint, “Do you buy all of those presents from Santa?”
He asked her why, and she said, “Because Ms. Parween said Santa Claus is dead.” (Or isn’t alive, or something like that; she seemed kind of confused.)
He said, […]

Deb mentioned that she was looking for a magazine for young Andrew, so I went looking to see if I could help.  I don’t know if I found any that she’ll want, but I found several that sounded very interesting to me.  I wish they didn’t cost so much, because I would love to get […]

I always go in to check on the kids, and say goodnight one last time, before I go to bed.  They usually sleep right through it, but sometimes they wake up a little, and give me a kiss and hug; sometimes it’s a bit more entertaining:
Last night, I climbed up to Angelina’s bed, and the […]

…you realize that however happy you are to have finally gotten her to sleep, you still look forward to her being awake.

I swore, when Angelina and Alexander were babies, that I’d never be one of THOSE moms — the ones who are always hurrying the kids along, getting annoyed when they dawdle. I did really well for the first three or four years but, after the divorce, I found myself more and more telling the […]

We got our new business cards a couple of days ago and boy am I excited!!! The first ones we ordered were really bad! The paper was cheap feeling and the picture was blurry. Lesson learned: don’t always go with the cheapest option. (It worked out okay: we changed the design […]

I signed the kids up for swim lessons today. They don’t start until June 23, but that was the earliest anybody could get them in. Angelina seems to be a bit nervous about it, and is very concerned that she’ll have to go in the deep water. I reassured her that she […]

It isn’t very FAR through yet, but it has broken the gum: I felt it on my fingernail when I was putting an ice cube in her mouth!
Did I mention that Christina eats ice cubes? The other two eat ice too, but nowhere near as much as Christina does; they like to have a […]