Wish I'd been a fly on the wall when her mom got her ready for a bath that night.[...]
Archive for December, 2009
Christmas Cookies: The Next Generation
This year, Mikayla helped me make the cookies. I figured it was time for the next generation to understand this so I don't have to still be doing it when I'm in my wheelchair. [...]
Writing a Book
Kelly ripped off her badge, handed it to me and said, "Here. I'm sure you want this so you can rag on me in your blog."[...]
It Takes a Village
December 15, 2009 To add a little fun to Christmas! This little Christmas village is made from recycled Christmas cards. Â That’s about all you need (unless you want to add some little battery-operated tea lights). Â What a fun and easy idea to help make the house look festive. Â[...]
If I told you I had pancakes for breakfast…
But there's no one in the school cafeteria heating up lunches for six hundred million little elementary school kids. [...]
Go Fish Go!
Mikayla's turn comes. You guessed it. She's half way to the other end of the pool before the instructor can catch up with her.[...]
December Showers
The baby shower to celebrate the impending birth of my next grand daugher, Leilah Nicole, was a resounding success. [...]
A Birth and a Death
So I get a plastic bag. I open the trash bin in preparation for the extremely gross offering I'm about to provide. I throw the bag over the ...mess... without heaving. [...]
Rth
As usual these days, my job at center time is to help kids stretch out words. They don't need to know how they are really spelled. They just need to write down how they sound for now because they are being taught the sounds of the letters, not how to spell.[...]
I Must Be Poor
So our assignment was to make a list of five words that were Needs. They'd talked about it the day before so they had a good idea that things like air, a house, clothes and food were Needs.[...]