I'll be honest here. One of my weaknesses as a parent is doing things for my kids that they should do themselves. Not all the time, but I can be an impatient perfectionist and just do things for them because we are a busy on-the-go family that doesn't have a lot of extra time. Love and Logic has been our favorite parenting book and I've tried to let them make their own decisions and experience … [Read more...]
It stinks that he's beautiful, the boy who Summit doesn't get along with because an extremely petty part of me wants him to be hideous. (I started to type, "the boy that bullies Summit", but that would be an overstatement as from all accounts they antagonize each other constantly.) That fact that they equally harass each other is oddly comforting actually. Summit has been bullied over the … [Read more...]
OK, so I kind of fibbed. These are morning of school day pics, or, as I like to call it, MOSDP. I remember last fall when people were posting pictures of their kids on Facebook on the morning of the school picture day and the "controversy" it caused. "Great. Now moms are posting pictures of their kids BEFORE school pictures?!" One mom lamented. "What happened to just posting school … [Read more...]
I got to spend the day with some amazing people. Have you ever had a moment where you exclaimed, "I wish I could have been a fly on the wall!" Well today was that for me. I attended the 99 Balloons Engage Disability conference today in Fayetteville and was simply blown away by the passion and enthusiasm of these people. At one point (ok, like most of the day) I was choking back tears to be in … [Read more...]
