Recently, I was reminded of how when you teach, you have to give briefs on how to deal with pooping, tooting, tinkling, burping, etc. It's a rather classy moment in education. Every year that I taught, I had to give my annual Tooty Talk, because this is a segment of the population that laughs at . . .
Surprise! Totally random pictures.
These photos above? You're wondering what the heck they are, aren't you? I would be too except I know that this is a box that was destined for the recycling bin until Little Red intercepted and got ahold of the contents in a craft bin, glue, scissors and material. Little Red consistently has strong . . .
It’s a paper party! Oh dear.
Well, by these pictures, you're probably wondering if Mama's been dippin' in the sauce or if I'm encouraging Little Man to become a professional confetti maker. It's neither. Having taught Kindergarten for five years, I had students begin the school year having never held scissors in their little . . .
Yee-haw! Blue, almost smokeless skies!
With *only a high of 93 today, we were game to meet some friends at one of the many local parks. The fairly blue skies were also enticing us to hang out amongst a bunch of other energized children in the afternoon sun. Last Friday wasn't only significantly cooler compared to the recent triple digits . . .
Back to school deals . . . meh but yay . . .
Meh, for back to school sales (aren't we still in the thick of summer?) but yay, for the deals to behold. It was July so of course school supplies were being advertised. I mean, hello, Independence Day was over by three weeks, so of course it was back to school ads everywhere. Ugh. I've been in . . .
Be Kool Little Man
*this morning when Little Man was sporting an 80's headband look with the fever having hit the road Little Man had a slight fever the other night, followed by a fever yesterday and two more in the night. He was the final victim of the flu that Little Lady and Little Red had experienced earlier in . . .
Fireworks & the flu
Regarding the Fourth of July, I don't have any fun pictures or stories to post because a week ago today, Little Lady had caught the flu bug and wasn't upbeat about celebrating our nation's independence. She spent the day sleeping and occasionally throwing up. A few days later, Little Red caught this . . .
Swimming lessons or lessons in patience?
Last month, I signed Little Man up for swimming lessons. I figured he'd do well since he swims often during the summer. Well, Little Man has had other plans for the past three days. That photo above? That's Little Man standing outside of the pool . . . until the last five minutes when I handed him . . .
Spanish! Ole’!
Last summer, I was determined to teach Little Lady and Little Red the basics of Spanish for two reasons; it's a great second language to be fluent in and I'd like my children to be bilingual since my family has a knack for speaking multiple languages (my dad-3, paternal grandma-3, paternal . . .
Giddyup! Summer’s here!
Woo-hoo! It's summer break here in southern Idaho! However, our true break didn't begin until yesterday. Saturday, our town Family Lions Club had a family event at a local park where we all spent roughly six hours that included setting up, manning various activities and finally, cleaning up. We were . . .