A Pack of $5 Stickers vs. Using What You Already Have!

Yesterday after I picked Phillise & my niece, Melodee, up from school, I decided to stop by Michael’s. We hadn’t been there all summer, so I figured it was high time we did. Initially, I thought about buying some stickers, but thought about the 1,000 we already had at home. (Translation: I was being a [...]

Look @ those two!

I called Phillise to ask her for a hug, and got a wet one ’cause the sleeves on her robe was wet.
“Honey, why are you wet? What are you doing?,” I asked her.
“Oh, I was just helping David wash the dishes,” she said.
So, I look in the kitchen after she walked away from me and [...]

An interesting discussion with David…

I just had an interesting discussion with David regarding his homework. For his Social Studies class, he had to dissect a Bertolt Brecht poem. It was very enlightening. Let me just say that I am very pleased with the curriculum @ his school. To be discussing Bertolt Brecht, his philosophy, using inference in relation to [...]

Guess How Smart I Am?

Well, guess! I am so smart that I didn’t know that David started school on Monday. Yes, people, today is Wednesday. The year just started and already, he’s missed 3 days of school. I could just scream.

Mission Impossible Assignment # 3: School Shopping on a Budget

Okay, all you shoppers out there. Boy, do I have an assignment for you: School Shopping on a budget. Should you choose to accept this assignment, you may encounter a store full of shoppers, some rude, some not. You may also stop and park @ several locations looking for the perfect deal. Well, lucky for [...]

An interesting discussion with Phillise

I just had an interesting discussion with Phillise. As I was writing a book review that E.B. Lewis illustrated, Phillise noticed his name and said,

“Hey, that’s the same person who illustrated I Love My Hair.”
“You are absolutely right,” I said. I missed it. Good job of catching that. Give me a high five. I was [...]

Fretful David!

My little boy, David, frets so much. I just received his CST scores and he performed exceedingly well. He was 8 points away from Advanced in Language Arts, and 11 points away from Advanced in Math. Yet, he was still upset.
“I didn’t get Advanced, mom?” he asked with a whimper.
David, forget about it. You worry [...]

Happy Birthday Dakota!

I’d like to wish my middle son, Dakota, a very Happy 18th Birthday!
I said it before and I’ll say it again, “My, where did the time go?”

My how time flies!

Happy July- my birthday month. The 27th to be exact. I will be 39!. I cannot believe it. I still feel like a teenager. How can I possibly almost be 40??? Also, how can I have two men-children that are graduated from high school? Two done, two to go. I’ve said it before and I [...]

How can someone do that?

I love my students. For some of them, I am the only love they know. I feel so bad for one of my students who I call Pink Socks. I didn’t see her this morning until after nine. The trouble started when her mom came up to the school because she called her crying. I [...]

Mean me!

I feel so bad. I yelled at Phillise today. She was crying so much I just wanted her to stop crying. I have three boys. I am not used to all that crying. I felt so helpless. She saw a bug in her room and started panicking. OOOOOOh, it drove me so crazy. I totally [...]

Library & Lakeshore Saturdays!

I am nearly finished with school. I am on stress leave. The point is that I am not as stressed, so I am getting back to some of the activities that I enjoy that had been all but abandoned in the past couple of years. One thing I really missed was my outings with my [...]

Congratulations Phillise!

My baby is so smart. She just told me that on her OCR assessment, she read 165 w.p.m. She’s only in first grade. I know this is because we read at least 5 times/week. I will continue. I am having her tested for Gifted/High Ability for entrance into a school I want to transfer her [...]

Happy Birthday, Phillise!

I cannot believe that my baby is 7 years old today. My, how time flies! I love you little brown lady. Happy Birthday!

Up late!

I’m up late braiding Phillises’ hair and other small errands. Hope I don’t fall asleep tomorrow. Until next time people!

Happy Birthday David!!!

Today, my baby is 11 years old. I can’t believe it. I love you little brown man.

Happy belated birthday!!!

I had so much to do yesterday that I forgot to wish my oldest son a happy birthday. It was his 19th! My how time flies!!!

i love my baby

i love my baby she is so ceratev and i like how she is her name is phillise.
I love my baby. She is so creative and I like how she is. Her name is Phillise.
This is too cute. It wasn’t written by Phillise. I left my WordPress account up while I napped. When I opened [...]

My baby’s growing up!!!

My baby’s growing up. Today we took his (Dakota) Senior pictures. I can hardly believe it. In less than a year, I will have two sons graduated from high school. I will ask the same question that I always ask, Where did the time go?

Welcome to the newest member of my family

I want to extend a warm welcome to my great-nephew, Khai Rodrigo. Born two days ago, to my niece, Brooke. He weighed in @ 6 lbs. 1.5 ozs., 19 inches long.

Party over here!

Yesterday was Moriah’s 1st birthday party. We held it at my house. It turned out wonderfully. It was about 75 people. It may sound big, but considering the size of my family plus extended family, that’s about the size of all of our parties. It would have been bigger, but many of the people who [...]

Happy Birthday Dakota!!!

Today is my middle son Dakota’s 17th birthday. I cannot believe it’s been 17 years. He’s getting ready to go into his senior year. As I always say, ” My! Where has the time gone?”

Happy Birthday, Moriah!!!

We just came back from Chuck E. Cheese for Moriah’s 1st birthday party. I cannot believe that it’s been a whole year already. Wow, where did the time go so fast?
So, before I forget, I want to say Happy, Happy Birthday to my beautiful little niece (who I helped deliver, btw) Moriah! Happy Birthday, Ta [...]

The books are off the floor

Well, I finally cleaned up David & Phillise’s room. I got the books off the floor and into the bookcase. In the process, I decided to get rid of about 50 books that Phillise has outgrown. I’m donating them to the church nurser. It feels so good to spring summer clean their room. I’ve only [...]

My little boy!

My little boy is getting big. He graduated from elementary school this week. He is officially not my little baby anymore.
I feel so sad. I remember him being a baby just like it was yesterday.
Where did the time go?

What is pink hand?

What is pink hand? That is what my little girl, Phillise, asked me a couple of minutes ago.
That is such a funny question. The funny part is that I knew exactly why she was asking me that question. My little boy, David, is such a germaphobe that he will not use my older son’s bathroom. [...]